Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city's historic temples. Within the past several weeks, strong earthquakes struck Oroville, Calif., Mindanao in the Philippines, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia and the southwest Pacific island of Bougainville...
Udall believes that his Southwest upbringing will be a campaign asset. Mo's grandfather David King was a Mormon pioneer who moved from Utah to Arizona in 1880. Mo's father Levi became chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and created a political base for his family that now rivals the power of the Goldwater clan...
Most of the funds are professionally administered and honestly run, yielding many truckers up to $550 a month after 20 years' service. Where the trouble -and the Mafia-comes in is with the huge (estimated assets: $1.5 billion to $2 billion) Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, based in Chicago. The target of many federal probes over the years, the Central States fund is characterized by a federal investigation as nothing less than a lending agency...
Among other overlooked camping areas within easy reach of a city is Montana's Fishtrap fishing-access site in the Big Hole River Valley, about 40 miles southwest of Butte. Not far from its campsites, moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats graze. Fishtrap is a "blue-ribbon" fishing area-the state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming...
Also in Canada, but considerably easier to reach, is the fine West Coast Hiking Trail on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, a cannon shot from Washington State across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Still being developed as part of Canada's newly dedicated Pacific Rim National Park, the 22 miles now open are equipped with suspension bridges over ravines, cable cars across two river canyons and a boardwalk along the rougher sections. At one point, the only way to cross the Nitnat Narrows is by dugout canoe, handled by Nitnat Indians who charge $2 for the ride...