Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last week there were reports from Sanandaj that the Interior Minister had worked out a tentative agreement with the Kurds that would grant them some degree of local autonomy. How long the accord would last was uncertain. A proud mountain people whose kinsmen fan out across the border into Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, the Kurds have been in rebellion against their overlords in Tehran for generations. During the early 1970s, the Shah aided the Kurds, who were fighting a guerrilla war to gain autonomy for their sector of northern Iraq. The U.S. tacitly backed the rebellion...
...nothing so much as a lunar landscape, and indeed was used as an off-off-planet tryout by the astronauts who made the first moon landing. The center of a 28,000-acre national park, Haleakala can be traversed by shanks' mare or mule train, a three-day mountain high...
...other side of Haleakala, on the cool uplands above Wailea, on a clear day you can see, if not forever, a dazzling, dappled distance of meadow, mountain and sea. At the 2,000-to 3,000-ft. level, a host of small farms raise a cornucopia of vegetables, fruits and flowers, notably lychee, avocado, guava, the apple-sweet Kula onion and protea, the flower of a thousand exquisite shapes...
Massachusetts residents have particular cause for concern, according to Cairns. "If you live around here, your probability of dying of cancer is about one-third higher than if you lived in a Rocky Mountain state," he said...
...lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas, to as much as 2.5? per gal. for deliveries by some oil majors to Rocky Mountain regions...