Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hinckley, the solitary third child of an oil-rich Colorado family, had spent the past few years idling through the Sunbelt, collecting guns, living on junk food, watching television. He became obsessed with Actress Jodie Foster, who starred in Taxi Driver, a movie about a loner who tries to shoot a presidential candidate. Hinckley wrote again and again to the unknowing Foster, the last time from Washington: "I will admit to you that the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you." Then he took...
Tired of seeing their state overrun by outsiders, members of the Colorado Native Society (membership requirement: a Colorado birth certificate) took to the road with bumper stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES...
Church officials had hoped that a little holy competition would force Denver's 18 private funeral homes to lower costs. Instead, threatened local undertakers seem bent on raising an unholy row. They have complained to the Colorado attorney general, charging the tax-free church with unfair business practices. The archdiocese, in a conciliatory move, has offered to pay taxes on any income from the mortuary. Says Martin Work, the archdiocese's director of administration: "There's plenty of business...
...asked Libya to close its Washington embassy-or "people's bureau," as the Libyans call their embassies-within five days, charging that its diplomats had intimidated Libyan dissidents in the U.S. and played a role in the attempted assassination of a student in Colorado. The same day the State Department issued the first of a series of statements urging U.S. citizens to leave Libya and avoid visiting it-a warning ignored by U.S. oilmen. Later the U.S. announced that it would help to bolster the defenses of Libya's neighbors, Tunisia and the Sudan, to "deter further Libyan...
...Army first tried to remove the bombs in 1978 but halted the effort when inspectors discovered that ten of the bombs were leaking GB.- Utah Governor Scott Matheson tried to block the transfer but Colorado Senator Gary Hart attached a rider to a defense bill directing Washington to detoxify the bombs or have them removed by this October...