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...five months the two mountain men, Don Nichols, 53, and his son Dan, 20, had eluded lawmen in the remote Montana wilderness near Bozeman. Many residents figured that the fugitives, wanted for the July kidnaping of Kari Swenson, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, and for the murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch...
...Lawmen crack down on international drug traffickers...
...first week passed peacefully, with a swath of petty arrests and just one momentary scare: a security guard aboard an athletes' shuttle bus radioed that they were being followed by a suspicious car. In swooped the highway patrol and a sheriffs helicopter. The lawmen arrested a man, who explained his cache of weapons and explosives by describing himself as "a warrior of the people" and voluntary protector of the athletes. He was held for psychiatric evaluation...
...tarry too long in Sugar Loaf's shadow. To see the world of frontier adventure you must go inland to the heart of South America, the Amazon basin. There, in a climate only somewhat wetter than Dodge City, is the familiar world of shootouts, corrupt lawmen and hardy pioneers...
...some of his rulings. Among them: Claiborne's occasional refusal to issue search warrants and his dismissal of several cases brought before him by the U.S. Government. Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's chief counsel, says that the judge is a victim of the long-running feud between federal lawmen and the Nevada Establishment. Says he: "The feds have tried to create the picture that we're all crooks and Mafia soldiers crawling around here...