Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dolan Signal Mountain, Tenn...
...guerrillas have strengthened their grip mainly in the eastern provinces. They control a strategic 62-mile stretch of Pacific beach and can roam freely through most of the countryside. To the north, the insurgents have streamed down from Chalatenango and the mountain redoubt of Guazapa to infiltrate the province of Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti...
...that his black bellows contained cholera; they smashed the whole instrument. But the rewards of pioneering photographic work could be magic indeed. Masters of Early Travel Photography (Vendome; 352 pages; $50) is a handsome, sepia-tinted sampler of 177 early photographs-small curios and enormous vistas, tattooed men and mountain ranges-taken by adventurers in Egypt, Japan, Brazil, India, China and that most exotic arena of all, the vanished American West...
...functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...
...year decline. Washington State PTA President Mary Ann Laramore notes that four years ago, $3,000 was considered a big budget for a PTA, but today "we're seeing budgets of $10,000 to $12,000." The Smoke Rise Elementary School in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain boasts a lab with 14 Apple II computers, 13 of which were bought by the PTA. The Lafayette parent group in Washington, B.C., which raises $40,000 a year from such projects as a flea market and an international-food festival, not only supports the salaries of a nurse...