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Rising abruptly from the eastern Nevada desert, snow-capped Wheeler Peak has long been a regional attraction. Visitors began arriving in 1885, after Rancher Absalom Lehman discovered vast limestone caves in the neighboring foothills. Swinging a sledgehammer to cut paths through forests of stalactites and stalagmites, Lehman then led candlelight tours through the caves for a dollar a head. After President Warren G. Harding declared the caves a national monument in 1922, Manager Clarence Rhodes rented them out for weddings, dances and initiation ceremonies for the Knights of Pythias, who frolicked in clouds of sulfurous smoke wearing costumes...
...Reagan himself, and several of his top aides, has said that the administration will not desert the Contras, and the president indicated in his weekly radio address last Saturday that support for the Contras must continue until a peace plan and democratization have been implemented...
Some will miss the puckishness of the old Bond; others may wilt during an overlong sequence set in the Afghan desert, when the movie turns Ishtary. But Glen, Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson (Broccoli's stepson, who serves as co- screenwriter and co-producer) have wrapped a few nifty surprises in the security blanket of genre familiarity. The gasbag KGB agent is smuggled out of Czechoslovakia through the Trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. A professional killer and a British guard stage the best kitchen fight since the gremlins got microwaved. The requisite ski chase sends Dalton and D'Abo bobsledding...
...Hoarse voices with Salvadoran accents leave ominous messages on answering machines: "For being a Communist, we will kill you." One activist received a list with the names of 19 refugees targeted for killing along with a menacing handwritten note saying, "Nothing will save you. Death, death. Flowers in the desert...
...California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines. The film, sent to a friend to be developed, was lost, except for ten photos that appeared in Conover's 1981 book Finding Marilyn. Conover died last...