Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three days, Vice President Mondale worked Capitol Hill, although he was bleary-eyed from the jet lag of his weekend trip to Rome for the installation of Pope John Paul I. He even sandwiched in an hour of phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
...laughed. "But when the November elections are over, I intend to sit down and do some thinking. If I decide to go I'll sure let you all know." As John Connally talked and joked, he was standing there on the very top of the hill that looks out over all of Washington. We may be hearing...
...free and left immediately in search of water. Three of the remaining 13 were miraculously spared by hiding when, half an hour later, nine armed guerrilla soldiers arrived. "It's only because I know a terrorist when I see one that I'm still alive," recalled Anthony Hill, 39, an army reservist. He hid in the bush. At first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding...
...downstream" refining and marketing operations. In the consuming countries, meanwhile, the Sisters faced painful marketing adjustments brought on by high prices and, in the U.S., a strong congressional drive to bust the oil majors into many smaller pieces. Worst of all, the companies seemed trapped in an over-the-hill business: all sorts of "experts" were saying that world oil production would peak as soon as the early 1980s, then start on an irreversible decline...
...largest region of its kind east of the Rockies-logging and motorboating continued under an amendment sponsored by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey. But lumbering has since been voluntarily suspended and will be permanently outlawed under legislation slowly making its way through the political thickets of Capitol Hill. So environmentalists are now concentrating their ire on the remaining target: motorized recreational vehicles...