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...Northwest is on fire. Since the beginning of August, 600,000 acres in six states have been ignited by lightning storms and kept ablaze by erratic summer winds. The raging flames have consumed prime lumber land in Oregon and Idaho, as well as parts of Washington, Montana, Utah and Nevada...
...North by Northwest...
When a U.S. Air Force C-5A transport plane landed in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz to launch the latest battle in America's war on drugs, the far-off town of Trinidad, 250 miles to the northwest, paid little heed. But the next day Trinidad Mayor Pedro Alvarez was summoned to the local Bolivian air force base for some unsettling news. The gringos are coming, he was informed; the base would need another well. Since that day, the tranquil cattle-farming community of Trinidad (pop. 40,000), capital of Bolivia's northeastern Beni region, has not been...
...sets for five operas and staged theatrical versions of his works, including the classic Where the Wild Things Are. Trying something new, Sendak last week was at work on his first movie. He teamed up with Director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf) and Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet to film The Nutcracker, a production that Sendak designed three years ago at the request of Kent Stowell, the company's artistic director. The transition from page to stage to film, says Sendak, was radical because "being a writer and illustrator, I don't work in three-dimensional scale...
Shultz then paid a brief visit--the first by a high-level U.S. official--to the oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei (pop. 214,000), which sits on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo and has been ruled by the same family for 29 generations. "There are no poor people in Brunei," said one U.S. official. He added that little Brunei, with its annual per-capita income of roughly $17,000, "has no serious problems of any kind." Shultz chatted with the Sultan and took a tour of the thousand-room palace compound with its squash and tennis courts...