Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched in remote splendor on a 7,300-ft. mesa between New Mexico's Jemez Mountains and the Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos has neither rich nor poor among its 15,000 inhabitants...
...Near An Khe, a patrol from the U.S. 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" nabbed a Viet Cong, who fingered his home base in a nearby, boxlike valley. The 101st promptly ringed the Viet Cong on three sides of the valley, while 2nd Battalion Commander Colonel Wilfred Smith flew his three companies into the valley's portal by helicopter to close the trap. Trouble was, the dried-up quilt of rice paddies chosen for landing was hard by the V.C. camp. So the Screaming Eagles got the hot welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz...
China's charges relate to two 14,000ft. mountain passes, Natu and Jelep, that lead to Tibet's Chumbi Valley. In this bleak terrain, swept by chill north winds, Peking claims the Indians have built "56 military structures," ranging from concrete gun positions to entrenchments, on China's soil. India concedes it has fortified the passes but insists the fortifications are on Sikkimese territory...
...valley grew narrow and narrower still...
...established the first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, acted not so much to conserve as to foil a group of land speculators. The real father of conservation is considered to be John Muir, a California naturalist, who in 1890 persuaded the Federal Government to take over the Yosemite Valley and the lands around...