Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When word of the episode first came out of Montana ten months ago, it seemed a bizarre yarn that belonged in the pages of some old Wild West pulps. Two unshaven, rifle-toting renegade mountain men, a father and son, abduct a young woman to take with them into the trackless Spanish Peaks wilderness where they live. Overtaken by searchers, they kill one pursuer, accidentally wound their captive of 18 hours (she has now recovered completely), then flee alone to the high country, only to be tracked down five months later by an unrelenting sheriff...
...same story, as explored last week in a Virginia City courtroom, seemed to belong not in a paperback novel at all but in a casebook of parental pathology. As the younger of the so-called mountain men went on trial in the abduction and wounding of Swenson and the killing of Alan Goldstein, neither of the accused--Dan Nichols, 20, and Don Nichols, 54--disputed the facts. Instead, both testified to an almost grotesque relationship in which the son had been manipulated into a state of worshipful dependency on a father who despised and defied conventional society. Dan's foster...
...Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations. To the east of the city is Peterson Air Force Base; to the north is the U.S. Air Force Academy; to the south is the Army's Fort Carson; and buried deep in Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Notes retired General James E. Hill, president of the local Chamber of Commerce and former commander of NORAD: "It's not like all of a sudden we're a new glamour girl." Military activity...
United Nations refugee officials estimated that between 10,000 and 20,000 Christians were made homeless by the fighting. It was the Christians' worst setback since the Chouf Mountain war in 1983, when more than 100,000 were displaced as a result of Druze victories following the Israeli pullout from the mountains. The fighting cast a shadow over Lebanon's few moments of joy last week. They came when Israel pulled back its troops from the port city of Tyre, which has been occupied since the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982. As Israeli...
After the official registration, they had to run an endless gauntlet of wild, paper-waving proselytizers, all vociferously urging Harvard's now-official freshmen to join the Young Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives mountain climbers, scuba divers...