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...weeks after he disappeared following his secret marriage to the daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Tomas (Tommy) Manotoc, 32, resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...
California's weather catastrophe was only the most extreme of the storms that struck the country last week. The winds from the Pacific blew eastward, covering parts of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada with as much as 10 ft. of snow, and triggering more than 100 avalanches in Colorado alone; one skier died there...
...extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong, and lately a prototype for young African countries beset with similar problems. In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Upper Volta and Liberia have all suffered similar revolutions within the past two years; The Gambia and Sierra Leone have narrowly avoided similar revolts. Much of the difficulty, as Rawlings insists, stems from government elites that squander resources and are unable to control their economies...
Watt, 43, has managed to keep the full backing of the White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
...thousand Huicholes live in the inaccessible Sierra Madres of Mexico, Negrin said, adding that they are the cultural bridge between the Aztecs and the Hopi Indians. Living in a cold, temperate, impassable climate, the Huicholes are "a shamanic culture of a very complex nature," he said...