Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When cable-TV titan Ted Turner bought a 110,000-acre Montana cattle ranch for $22 million earlier this month, his new neighbors suspected ulterior motives. They imagined that Turner, who earlier had bought 21,000 acres nearby, might carve up the scenic Rocky Mountain property for homesites or even sell part of it to a New Age cult...
...Last week, after environmentalists and their allies on Capitol Hill got a look at the President's 279-page plan for implementing his promise to clean up America's spacious but smoggy skies, they claimed he had double-crossed them. Bush, they said, had retreated substantially from his Rocky Mountain rhetoric and in some areas even fell short of current...
...blast is startling, and so is the reverberation that echoes like a landslide. But the sound of artillery fire -- the sound of war -- fades quickly in the gigantic stillness of mountain and glacier. Soldiers clad in dirty white snowsuits, their faces burned black by the sun, scramble to put another shell in the 105-mm howitzer and fire again. They are Pakistanis, serving at an outpost 17,200 ft. up on the Baltoro Glacier, just short of a sweeping ridgeline called the Conway Saddle. Their fire is aimed over the ridge at similar positions manned by Indian troops seven miles...
...Pakistan. When Gandhi and Bhutto met face to face in Islamabad last week, however, they failed to come close to devising a practical solution. Progress has been as thin as the atmosphere in the Karakorams, as the negotiators struggle to settle the central issue: how to divide the disputed mountain area between Pakistan and India...
...captured by police, Dornier was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. On Friday he was transferred to a prison hospital near Paris, where he was reported in stable condition. Said Luxiol Mayor Roger Clausse, whose five- year-old niece was among the dead: "It's appalling, the mountain of sorrow that he has caused...