Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brings back images of the great buffalo massacres of the 19th century. Since last October, Montana hunters have gunned down a record number of bison that have been roaming outside the bounds of fire-ravaged Yellowstone National Park, foraging on neighboring ranch and forest land. The state legislature made bison a big-game animal again in 1985, after game wardens had had to shoot 88 stray bison and hunters complained that the privilege should have been theirs...
Shortly after dawn, five helicopter gunships took off from the Palanquero military air base southeast of Medellin. Thirty minutes later, skimming over the treetops of the Colombian jungle, the clattering swarm descended on a ranch outside the Magdalena River town of Puerto Triunfo. Thirty members of Colombia's elite National Police antinarcotics unit jumped from the copters and began searching the grounds. Their eventual payoff: discovery of three complexes containing eight cocaine laboratories. After the raiders methodically burned chemical dumps and bunkhouses, a five-man explosives team blew up brick buildings, generators and 15,000-gal. chemical holding tanks...
...site of Operation Primavera's first strike was Finca la Brasilia (Brazil Ranch), reportedly owned by Alberto Toro, brother-in-law of the notorious coke lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Early last week the raiders descended on Hacienda Napoles, the grandest -- and gaudiest -- of Escobar's several country estates. The helicopters landed to the trumpeting of three caged elephants, part of a private zoo maintained by the drug kingpin. Not found was Escobar, one of the world's most wanted criminals, who has eluded Colombian authorities dozens of times...
...dinner that evening, at a ranch nearby, Baker faces a snap quiz. "What's the capital of Tanzania, Dad?" says one of his stepsons...
...Washington to become Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, Baker and his wife lived briefly in two rooms without a phone at a Christian Fellowship house. His Foxhall Road residence wasn't ready, and the Bakers wanted to save "about $7,000 in hotel bills." Now, at the ranch, Baker says he is thinking of heading back to Washington a few hours early. "O.K.," says Susan, "but remember we got those supersaver fares, Jimmy. It'll cost extra." "Oh, right," says Baker. "Forget it. I'll go back as planned...