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...protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...
...people, who are contented but not complacent, but also for the clean air, picturesque rivers and forests. Boise residents live there not by chance but by choice." Correspondent Michael Moritz trekked through Tucson, Santa Fe and Salt Lake City before winding up at Arco's Black Thunder mine in Wyoming. He watched in awe as "shovels the size of freighters dumped coal into trucks the size of houses." In Washington, D.C., Correspondent Gary Lee interviewed Congressmen and other powerbrokers active in the frontier states...
Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...
...Shreveport, La.: A powerful 10-1 McNeese State squares off against Southern Mississippi (8-3). Few parts of the country take their football more seriously than Looziana, as the natives pronounce it. McNeese State is one of the schools that has sprung up in the state to steal the thunder of traditional force LSU. Powered by a partisan crowd and rushing offense that racked up nearly 300 yards a game, McNeese State should roll...
Lashed by hot, howling desert winds, they are such a seasonal feature in Southern California that fire officials give them names, like hurricanes. This week "Thunder," "Indian Truck," "Lakeland" and five other brushfires consumed 84,000 acres of hillsides and canyons in the region. Only a week earlier, 63,000 acres near Los Angeles had been blackened...