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Ironically, there has been summer rainfall high over the Northwest. But the air temperature has been raised so much by an abnormally warm summer that the rain has evaporated before hitting earth. Lightning generated by these abortive rainstorms has continued to strike, setting fire to dried underbrush and causing an estimated 80% of the Northwest's fires...
There is little prospect of reaching any such agreement in the near future. Rusk pointed out that talks "are now concentrated on clearing the underbrush" and nothing more. In other areas, however, Washington sees more cause for hope. Veteran Sovietologist (and newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Moscow) Llewellyn Thompson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Moscow now feels much freer to act than it did just a few months ago. Red China, he reasoned, is in such bad odor with the rest of the Communist world that the Russians no longer cringe whenever Peking accuses them...
...withering under spidery trees, the desperate man plays hide-and-seek with his pursuers. Starving, he eats raw snails, shrubs, serpents. Trapped, he sets fires in his wake, or fights. Finally, days later, as he crawls to the safety of a mission fort, the white man waves toward the underbrush. The warriors' resolute leader (South African Actor Ken Gampu) salutes in return, and both men quit the field with honor...
...abductor was Bicycle Bill, combed the area for five days without finding a trace of man or girl. Then, while helping to scour a rocky ridge, FBI Agent Terry Anderson, 42, spotted one of Hollenbaugh's dogs, followed it -and was shot dead. More bullets fired from the underbrush killed one tracking German shepherd that lunged after the fugitive, and wounded the dog's partner. When Hollenbaugh and Peggy were spotted moving away from the scene shortly afterward, the authorities mounted the biggest man hunt in Pennsylvania's history. As night fell more FBI men, National Guardsmen...
...very nature of air reconnaissance by fire suggests a civilian hazard in built-up areas. By stitching a few random bullets through the underbrush, armed choppers hope to draw fire that will reveal a Viet Cong position. It often works; but now and then the bullets hit buffaloes, houses-or people...