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Thomas Smith Missoula, Mont...
Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second novel. Whites, he feels, tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose...
What they all seemed to understand implicitly was that in Montana, no less than in California or New York, ordinary people feel that they have lost touch with their own government. Said Delegate Daphne Bugbee, an architect from Missoula: "We want our government to serve us, to be where we can look at it, feel it, touch it and know...
Northwest Airlines Flight 305 began as the most prosaic of milk runs. It started in Washington, D.C., at 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, with scheduled stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...
MAUREEN CHENEY CURNOW Missoula, Mont...