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...July 31, a six-year-old camper was pulled from the jaws of a mountain lion by a 16-year-old counselor on a hiking trail near Missoula, Mont. The animal slunk away and was later tracked and killed; the child suffered puncture wounds and numerous scratches. In April, in Villa Park, Calif., which is about six miles east of Disneyland, a cougar climbed into a pine tree in Alice Thompson's backyard, leaped onto her front porch and nudged at the door before trying to jump a fence into a neighboring yard. Animal-control officials killed...
Motels, restaurants and other saloons in the Missoula area all cleaned up, although Kim Latrielle says the Chamber of Commerce doesn't promote the Testicle Festival because "it is not a family-type event...
...oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country. The environment may well be the gut issue that can unify a polarized nation in the 1970s. It may also divide people who are appalled by the mess from those who have adapted to it. Basic to all solutions is the need...
...time, at least, the regimen worked wonders on the dropout rate and also enhanced the group's isolation and secrecy. Balch kept tabs on the group until 1982; in 1994 nine cultists walked through his office door in Missoula, Montana, to tell him the 200 or so members that he knew existed in the 1970s had become a band of 24. Nettles, he learned, had died of cancer in 1985. They had also grown dramatically more apocalyptic in their beliefs...
During the long night watches as they sailed to Mururoa, La Rebaude's hands told Greenpeace stories, many of which shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...