Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate about a year from now, the crowd is instantly on its feet as his presence is announced and he bounds down to the podium. He speaks for 50 minutes, without notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine in the Kremlin, where he heard Gorbachev declare that the cold war was over. And when Powell has delivered his set speech...
...decided to take action. Sally, an artist and real estate agent, remembered hearing about a child who had had a good experience at a wilderness-therapy camp, North Star Expeditions, Inc. The Bacons talked with North Star's owners about the 63-day survival course in the south Utah desert. The program, the Bacons decided, could be just the thing to help their son get back on track. "I pictured Aaron sitting around campfires, being nurtured by nature," Sally Bacon explained to the Los Angeles Times. "I thought I was sending him to a little slice of heaven...
...March 1, 1994, Aaron's North Star adventure began -- an ordeal that resembled a desert hell and that ended one month later with the return of Aaron's emaciated corpse to his parents. Last month a Panguitch, Utah, judge ordered North Star's owners and some of its staff to stand trial later this year on charges of child abuse and operating a program in violation of state licensing standards. Lawyers for the owners contend that Aaron was uncooperative and refused to carry his backpack, thereby depriving himself of food and supplies. "While no one wants to use the word...
...Todd Grey at last month's pretrial hearing. In a civil suit, Aaron's parents claim that some counselors taunted him for slowing down the group. As punishment, the suit continues, North Star took away Aaron's sleeping bag, leaving him with only a blanket in the sometimes freezing desert nights. "I am in terrible condition here," one of his final, anguished journal entries reads, "My hands are all chapped & my lips are cracking. I feel like I'm losing control of my body." On March 31, Aaron collapsed on the trail and died in the cab of a truck...
...local economy survive when more than 50% of its population is on welfare? Perfect soup to brew the likes of Timothy McVeigh and other militia types. So don't blame Needles for the ills she suffers. It is not her fault. BARBIE JOHNSTON FREEMAN Palm Desert, California...