Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high Sierra for Karefa-Smart...
Died. Lucio Cabañas, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Cabañ⅞as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata...
Later in the month, the Union issued a joint report with the Sierra Club, critical of an AEC reactor safety study...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...their report, the Union Scientists and the Sierra Club also charged that the AEC is "misusing" the results of the Rasmussen report...