Word: hills
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...lacks the intrigue of the Iran arms deal, but the case of the Korean M-1 rifles has stirred a controversy on Capitol Hill just the same. Since 1984 Blue Sky Productions, a small Arlington, Va., arms dealer, has been trying to import up to 200,000 American-made M-1s that the U.S. Army shipped to South Korea during World War II and the Korean War. The company hopes to reap as much as $30 million by buying the rifles for $150 apiece and selling them to antique-gun collectors for $300. But the Treasury Department has barred...
...more than $300,000 to the jurists in 1986 alone. Now that case, along with the quickening torrent of lawyer donations to judges at all levels, is sparking what could be the first serious reform effort since the system settled into place in 1873. This week Chief Justice John Hill will take the extraordinary step of quitting the bench to lead a drive to abolish the elective process...
...would-be kings will meet at the top of the hill tonight. One will come tumbling down...
...bottom of the hill, Gorbachev asked the farmers, lined up beside their equipment like soldiers on parade, about the mood on the farm. "Good. Businesslike," came the replies. Gorbachev was not satisfied. "I always hear the same answer," he said. "((But)) there are always problems." For example, he asked, was everything available "except for vodka," a teasing reference to his antialcoholism campaign. Well, no, one farmer mumbled. It was the season for making jams and jellies, and sugar was scarce. Gorbachev shot back: Do you know why? Moonshiners are buying up all the sugar to make home brew...
Officials of the Zavorovo state farm near Moscow had prepared carefully for the big day last August. They had even built a special staircase to spare their distinguished visitor the indignity of climbing down a hill to the potato fields below the main road. Mikhail Gorbachev would have none of it. Stepping out of his ZIL limousine, he gave the staircase a dismissive wave and scrambled down the steep incline in his neatly pressed gray business suit, leaving his surprised entourage to run after him in full view of television cameras...