Word: reservoirs
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Some Washington mystics have attributed this uncharacteristic intransigence on the Nicaraguan problem to the extra voices Reagan heeds when the issue is Central America. Two months back in The New Republic, a white House aide told Carl Bernstein that the President has a stable of wily Svengalis--"His reservoir of right-wing friends and contacts from the old days"--urging him rightward into Nicaragua. "He can be his own worst enemy, particularly when he gets some hare-brained ideas from reading right-wing garbage," the aide told Berstein. "A lot of times that's when the trouble starts...
Into coming and hiking? Forget tourist-clotted Rocky Mountain Park. Instead, head south on Route 135 out of skitown Crested Buite. Go left at Almont, past Taylor Park Reservoir. At the lake, go right. A bumpy seven-mile dirt road brings you through a glade into Tin Cup. Yes, that is its name. A half-doezen log cabins nestle at the Western foot of the Sawatch Range. There's an ice-cold brook to drink from, and miles of meadows and mountain trails to explore...
...said that he later found out that the village had been abandoned after the government flooded its fields to make a reservoir. Jebsen added he was told that a hippie commune had taken over the village, but while he was there...
Center stage last week, however, belonged to Dr. Maria Byrdy, a retired pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Popieluszko after his body was pulled from the Vistula River reservoir. Speaking to a rapt audience, Byrdy, 75, stated that contrary to her previous opinion, she found it impossible to determine specifically what had been the cause of Popieluszko's death...
Just one day after Byrdy's testimony was completed, the court was subjected to an even more wrenching session. For 40 minutes, judges, lawyers and spectators watched a black-and-white videotape showing Popieluszko's body moments after it was pulled from the reservoir. The effect of the videotape upon the defendants was clear: Pekala cried openly; Chmielewski bowed his head; and, for his part, Piotrowski appeared to be taking deep breaths. Only the fourth defendant, former Secret Police Colonel Adam Pietruszka, remained impassive...