Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daybreak the convoy reached the border town of Ban Hin Taek, the fortified mountain stronghold of Khun Sa, the most powerful opium warlord in Asia. Their objective: capture the town and crush the 2,000 mercenaries of Khun Sa's Shan United Army, who ran the opium refineries and ruthlessly held sway over the entire region. The Thai soldiers promptly took up battle lines on one side of the town's main street. Ten yards away stood the surprised drug traffickers, many of them routed from bed and still in their underwear-but heavily armed with automatic weapons...
...exhilaration comes in part, from the release of cerebral tension. At the starting , you're afraid, but not really afraid," Hale says because the mind is busy scanning the course that takes the racer down a mountain in two minutes. "You're going over it, finding little places, and looking for extra speed...
...weeks after he disappeared following his secret marriage to the daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Tomas (Tommy) Manotoc, 32, resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...
...team will have a chance to regain its composure when it faces the same 10 NCAA Division I squads at the Williams College Carnival next week at Brodie Mountain in western Massachusetts...
...Harvard Law Review is the top of the mountain. Its members are not only at the nation's most fabled legal institution, but they are the superachieving 8% in each class who are selected to work on the prestigious journal. Law firms fight fiercely for the chance to pay them starting salaries that top $40,000. Now all those who prize and depend on this carefully structured system are in an uproar. The Review has voted to throw a short rope to minority students who have not made it quite as high as their white classmates, and critics, including...