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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...
...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...
...happen. In the months after Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 "persons of Japanese ancestry" (those with 1/16th Japanese blood or more) were forcibly relocated from the West Coast to inland internment camps in desolate areas of Wyoming, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. Most were American citizens. One-third were resident aliens born in Japan and therefore, under the law of the time, ineligible for citizenship. No act of espionage or sabotage was attributed to a Japanese American during World War II. They were summarily imprisoned and their constitutional rights suspended solely because of their race. One thousand...
...none-too-musical, but wildly successful, heavymetal group like Van Halen, life on the road can be rocky. When a Colorado promoter served band members M & M's but failed to separate the brown ones they hate, the group was left with no alternative but to trash a dressing room, causing a couple of thousand dollars in damages. Vocalist David Lee Roth, 25, has further problems. His sexually suggestive antics whip pubescent fans into a frenzy and sometimes put naughty ideas into young girls' heads. Says Roth: "I get letters all the time saying...