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Another revealing glimpse into Montana's vivid past is on display at the glorious Deer Lodge Valley in the northern Rockies, ten miles west of the continental divide. The Grant-Kohrs Ranch, started by Canadian fur trader Johnny Grant in 1862, became the center of open-range cattle operations owned by German immigrant Conrad Kohrs. The ranch ran herds on more than 10 million acres in four states and Alberta, an area nearly the size of Switzerland. "Grant was the last mountain man, and Kohrs the first cattle baron," says Lyndel Meikle, a park ranger who has spent twelve years...
...selection of a new leader to a party vote, rather than the back-room politicking that gave rise to leaders like Uno. "Our defeat was caused by the public's distrust of us," said party elder Takami Eto. "We must now rebuild that trust by operating more in the open...
Rather than joining the Communists, Walesa said, he told Jaruzelski that Solidarity should be permitted to form its own government. The trade-union movement earned that right, the union leader declared, with its dramatic June 4 election victory, in which its candidates captured all 161 seats that were open to it in the 460-seat Sejm, or lower house, and 99 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Said he: "The only sensible decision would be to give power to those forces that have the support of the majority of the electorate...
Bush wants to have regular meetings with Gorbachev, as did Reagan, but scheduling that first one in this environment of high expectations is ticklish. Gorbachev and his Polish and Hungarian cohorts cannot yet be made members of the open-market club, though they have such yearnings. But Bush hopes that there may be some way to bring the Communists closer to provisional entry into the free-market system. Bush, like most modern Presidents, is captivated by confronting the problem and devising solutions. The hunch here is that in the next three or four months, Bush and Gorbachev will meet...
Bush's relationship with the somber, shaded Jaruzelski is probably as open as that with reformer Walesa. "I told Jaruzelski that he seemed closer to Gorbachev than any of the other leaders," Bush related. "Jaruzelski smiled and said that was probably so. He told me that he had just talked to Gorbachev before our meeting. Jaruzelski now is more willing to speak out, has more confidence to accept different opinions...