Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizers of the Harvard-Yale party in Colorado are a bit more relaxed. "It will probably be a quiet event," says Rocky Mountain Harvard Club President D. Bruce Ellsworth '48. "People will watch the game, eat a bit, drink a bit, and then leave," he adds...
Sarajevo, from the Turkish saray (palace), is a bustling mountain valley city (pop. 447,687) where world events have visited before. In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary was assassinated there by a local student, precipitating World War I. The places where wars begin evidently have a limited appeal for tourists, since the airport felt no need for a modern landing strip until one was installed this year...
...expected 30,000 tourists, from whom the organizers hope to net $50 million. Besides the 2,000-capacity Mojmilo Olympic Village, which is a series of high-rise apartment buildings, a special hotel for competitors in the Nordic events was built cantilevered on the face of the mountain. Athletes with icicles in their beards will begin to report there in January, the better to muffle the shock of the Sarajevo winter...
...territory, some of which has been under the control of rebellious Kurdish nationalists, as well as seizing strategic chunks of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Tehran government claimed last week that its forces had captured 270 sq. mi. of Iraqi territory in the bloody week-old thrust, including several mountain strongholds...
...socks away his money, partly in banks in the Cayman Islands, and lives quietly in the apartment in Mountain View, Calif. But in September 1981, he seeks out an American attorney and arranges to meet him in a piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...