Word: mountainous
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Having lived much of his adult life in Asia, Kirkwood wanted badly to send his five children to school back in Eastern Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountain region where he was born. Returning to the United States in 1974, he and his wife Ginny purchased an old resort hotel in the area, restoring the neglected building to its historic g1randeur. The inn had a large theatre in the back, and before long Kirkwood had reopened it as the Shawnee Playhouse, which has hosted as many as 14 musicals in the last two seasons. Kirkwood produces all the shows locally...
...Nationalist army, and more than half a dozen "liberation armies" scramble for their share of the $800 million annual opium haul. Last February Thai armed forces ousted the region's biggest opium smuggler, Khun Sa, and his 3,000-member Shan United Army from their luxurious mountain aerie in the border town of Ban Hin Taek. Khun Sa fled back to Burma, and his departure created a power vacuum that lesser warlords are now fighting to occupy. In Burma, Khun Sa has tried to muscle his way into territory controlled by smaller criminal gangs. Even the 10,000-member...
Equally threatened are the 450 civilians who live in Doi Luang, a picturesque mountain town straddling the Thai-Burmese border. While Thai border police patrol the streets, three mercenary armies camp atop a 7,200-ft. mountain near by. Among them are Khun Sa's mercenaries and their local allies. In the surrounding jungle are the rival forces of a pro-Communist warlord known as ABe. Periodically, bursts of machine-gun fire echo down the mountainside. Ambushes are frequent, and victims seldom receive a proper burial. Says a Western narcotics agent: "There seems to be only one rule when...
...arrested under the Nazi occupation. The boy fled to Budapest and hid with other Jews in a house that was under the protection of a foreign embassy. The young fugitive scrounged for dry beans and moldy sausage. Searching for a relative in a ghetto hospital, he came upon a mountain of bodies that had been machine-gunned by Hungarian Nazis...
After heavy storms two years ago, the Salt River nearly topped Arizona's Stewart Mountain Dam, threatening to flood parts of Phoenix. State officials even feared a total collapse of Stewart. "We felt it was imminent," recalls Reid Teeples , a Salt River project official...