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Indians from New Mexico's pueblos have been a pivotal part of the U.S. Forest Service's Southwest Firefighters Unit since the early 1950s. High spirited, and paid $7.05 an hour, the Jemez Pueblo's Eagles are among the proudest of all the smoke eaters and are often sought out to help battle fires throughout the West. Last week four of the 102-member group were killed and 17 others injured when their truck overturned off a mountain road in Idaho, where they had been fighting a forest fire. Just as the Jemez community (pop. 2,800) always turned...
...Anacletus and St. Clement I, who may or may not have been drowned off Crimea with an anchor around his neck. These were the first of the heirs of St. Peter, the Popes of Rome, some of them loved, some feared, some venerated, some murdered. One of the proudest and most powerful, Innocent III (1198-1216), started calling himself the Vicar of Christ because he said he was "set midway between God and man" and given "the whole world to govern...
...orthodox historic preservationists, it seems perverse to make instant history out of the immediate past. But Hess is a militant. He belongs to the Society for Commercial Archeology and claims as his proudest achievement convincing the Department of the Interior in 1984 that the oldest surviving McDonald's, plopped down just 31 years earlier in suburban Los Angeles, deserves inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places...
...fact of how natural he can make himself feel in a stadium full of people. I've watched him, and I don't know whether he's any more natural when he's alone. The days I make it look easy when it wasn't easy are my proudest. But for him, I think it is easy. I just think he knows what he wants to be. If you don't know what you want to be, people are going to make you what they want...
...week's fighting was something of a setback for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who counts last year's withdrawal from Lebanon as one of his proudest achievements. Since a total of 656 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon between the invasion in June 1982 and the pullout in June 1985, Peres has often said that the withdrawal was saving 20 Israeli lives a week...