Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captive barely resembled the mountain man who had become something of a legend. His shaggy beard had been replaced by a trim mustache, and agents speculated that he had undergone facial surgery. Authorities found him by shadowing Danny Martinez, a cowhand pal. "We set up a net around Mr. Martinez, and Dallas walked into it," said an FBI agent. In Idaho, Dallas faces an additional five years for prison escape, tacked onto his 30-year sentence for manslaughter...
...world in which spying between friendly nations is not uncommon, what was unusual about the Pollard case? For one thing, the sheer volume of the intelligence material Pollard stole and turned over to Israel. According to the Government, if all these documents were stacked in one place, the resulting mountain of paper would be 6 ft. wide, 6 ft. deep and 10 ft. high. Furthermore, the material stolen covered a wide range of highly sensitive subjects, from nuclear facilities in Iraq and Pakistan to Soviet surface-to- air-missile capabilities to the antiaircraft defenses around the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters...
RIVERSIDE, Calif.--Self-styled mountain man Claude Dallas, who escaped from the Idaho State Pententiary after being convicted of killing two state Fish and Game wardens, was captured yesterday in California, the FBI said...
...Campanas Observatory in Chile last week, Astronomer Ian Shelton felt a surge of excitement. In an exposure he had taken just hours before with one of the observatory's small telescopes was a bright spot that had not appeared in older pictures. Stepping out into the clear mountain air of the Chilean coastal range, the University of Toronto scientist reverted to a technique now used only rarely by professional stargazers: he looked up at the sky. There, in the fuzzy patch of light known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, was the spot. Says Shelton: "For more than three hours...
...Some mountain resorts have been wary of snowboards, fearing that hotdogging teenagers would intimidate regular skiers. Snow Summit, near Los Angeles, Vail in Colorado, and Sugarbush in Vermont are a few places that ban the board, but more than 100 ski areas nationwide allow it. Because rentals are cheaper and paraphernalia not as grand, many resort owners think snow surfing may attract a whole new crowd to try out the slopes. The sport has already achieved the organized trappings of respectability. Next month Breckenridge will play host to the World Snowboard Classic, with more than 200 competitors from ten countries...