Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myths of the romanticized West die hard, a fact that was making a tough job even tougher last week for a 100-man posse in three states. The searchers were engaged in an all too familiar chore: hunting down Claude Dallas, 36, a self-styled "mountain man" who cold-bloodedly killed two game wardens in January 1981. After the slayings, Dallas eluded similar posses in the bleak, high desert country near the Oregon-Idaho-Nevada border for 16 months before he was wounded and caught in April 1982. On Easter Sunday, Dallas cut his way through two fences...
...near Winnemucca, Nev., close to the mobile home where he had been captured four years ago. To some locals, Dallas embodied all the old gunslinger's heroics. He had proved that he was a faster draw than the wardens, who, in this view, had no business invading his mountain camp to find out whether he was poaching game, a God-given right in the wilderness. Never mind that Dallas had pumped shots into the heads of both victims as they lay wounded on the ground. He managed to persuade a jury that he was guilty only of manslaughter...
...this year's price declines will slash revenues by about $6 billion. That could make it virtually impossible for the cash-strapped country to meet payments on the $97 billion it owes to foreign countries. Some economists now estimate that Mexico stands an 80% chance of defaulting on its mountain of debt. Several experts say that conditions are already more dire than in 1982, when a temporary Mexican default sent ripples of panic through the international financial system...
Reagan, who spent a working vacation at his mountain-top ranch near Santa Barbara doing chores and horseback riding, was briefed on the explosions on a TWA airliner approaching Athens and in a West Berlin discotheque popular among U.S. soldiers...
...filtration systems since the Colorado department of health warned them in February not to drink the water unless it is boiled for five minutes. Reason: traces of TCE were in the supply. In an unusual gesture, the U.S. Army, conceding that some of the contaminants seeped from its Rocky Mountain Arsenal, agreed to put up $1 million for a tempo- rary purification system. Assistance also came from the Coors Co. of Golden, which gave away 2,200 cases of its famed Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water to thirsty residents...