Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staggering, but low-profile, problems being neglected. There would be fewer graves to dig if Reagan and the press realized that it is their responsibility to focus attention on and find solutions to the most serious problems their country faces, not to make a mountain out of a mole hill and then bomb...
...Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, puts it, "an important player." This week the House of Representatives reconsiders the Reagan Administration's contra aid package. If it is passed, the White House will owe a measure of thanks to Leiken. Through his testimony on the Hill and his published arguments, he has played a significant role in developing the compromise bill that was passed three weeks ago by the Senate. The Reagan Administration hopes that this bill will be similarly palatable to Republicans and Democrats in the House...
...Congress also showed last week that it cared more about the NRA's dollars than it did about the lives of policemen, who swarmed Capitol Hill to defeat a bill which their organizations had labeled "cop-killing...
Bloodhounds working from the scent of a baseball cap found near the prison traced Dallas as far as the Paradise Hill Bar near Winnemucca, Nev., close to the mobile home where he had been captured four years ago. To some locals, Dallas embodied all the old gunslinger's heroics. He had proved that he was a faster draw than the wardens, who, in this view, had no business invading his mountain camp to find out whether he was poaching game, a God-given right in the wilderness. Never mind that Dallas had pumped shots into the heads of both victims...
...Paradise Hill Bar, Bartender Larry Asey declared, "He's got a damn lot of friends up here." Some of those supporters apparently were calling the sheriff's office with phony tips about seeing Dallas everywhere from Canada to Colorado. The calls fooled no one as the pursuers prepared for a long, dangerous hunt in the sparsely populated region, where there are countless places to hide and plenty of folks willing to harbor a fugitive, even if he is actually as mean and brutal as most of the Old West's false heroes...