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...TIME marked the Mountain West's growing importance by reopening its Denver news bureau after a 13-year hiatus, and by installing Woodbury as chief. He barely had a chance to unpack his skis before this week's story propelled him on a two-week, 2,500-mile sweep across seven states from the Canadian border to New Mexico. "I had been warned that the region would be unrecognizable to me," he says. "Things like the brown pollution cloud over Denver's sky line, the mind-boggling traffic in Jackson Woodbury with oil Hole, the rising crime...
...were actually still bogged down in positions they have held for weeks. The Iraqis claimed that since the war began Sept. 22 they have killed 5,600 Iranian troops and downed 460 enemy aircraft. The Iranians said they had counterattacked at Ahwaz, Susangerd and other points along the 500-mile front. Iranian warplanes also struck at the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, where authorities have reopened a major oil pipeline to Turkey...
...even more progress in his pursuit of the title of team Renaissance man. In addition to his long jump triumph, he led a Crimson sweep in the high jump with a six-and-a-half foot jump and for good measure ran the anchor leg of the JV one-mile relay...
...events, however, the thinclads saved the afternoon's thriller for last. After sitting out the 800, Adam Dixon decided that he was sufficiently fit to run the anchor leg on the two-mile relay...
When he took the baton, the Crimson foursome faced a half-lap deficit to the Brown team. As 200 spectators rose to their feet amid wild cheering and clapping, Dixon poured it on and passed the Brown anchor man within one quarter of a mile to finish a third of a lap ahead...