Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steubenville, Ohio, Reagan said, "I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind." In rebuttal, Environmental Protection Agency officials said automobiles are not even regulated for sulfur dioxide, because they emit very little of it; utilities, which are regulated, have spewed out 200 million tons...
...Titans' targets are secret, but experts believe that they are aimed at Soviet nuclear missile command centers and perhaps other targets like submarine bases. Explained a defense analyst: "For example, you might know that a Soviet command and control center is in a Soviet mountain, but not exactly where. Titan II's large warhead could be used to dig up the mountain...
...MOUNTAIN MEN Directed by Richard Lang Screenplay by Fraser Clarke Heston
...Mountain Men concerns a trapper (Charlton Heston) who in a battle with a band of Blackfeet acquires an Indian maid (Victoria Racimo). For the rest of the film her Indian master (Stephen Macht) and Heston have at each other for possession of the lady, yet the struggle is not developed with much style. There is none of the menace and mystery that attended a similar conflict in Robert Redford's 1972 Jeremiah Johnson, which also dealt with the trappers who first explored the West. Brian Keith is at his best as Heston's raffish companion. But Heston seems...
...gold in California's wine-rich Napa County. Newmont Mining Corp. has uncovered gold deposits near Elko, Nev., that should yield about 440,000 oz. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co. made known last week that it had found ore containing both gold and silver near Round Mountain...