Word: ynez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier, the Forrestal, to proceed from Naples to the vicinity of Cyprus in the event that the Pan Am jet was flown there. Vice Admiral John Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, telephoned news of the hijacking to President Reagan at his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains just as the Reagans were about to set out on their daily horseback ride. Later the White House released a statement declaring, "Nothing can justify such barbarism. We can think of no punishment too severe for the criminals responsible." In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz...
...fishbowl, but at least it provides some privacy in the family quarters on the second floor. Not so Ronald Reagan's beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara. When the Reagans are in residence, TV networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan on horseback, so the news editors went...
...after day, network crews restlessly peer down from their perch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, looking for photo opportunities at the adobe ranch buildings three miles distant that serve as Ronald Reagan's Western White House. But thick swirls of morning fog and shimmering waves of afternoon heat obscure their camera view, and the subject stays half hidden in the shade...
...past 15 years, more and more wineries have learned that a distinctive label can be the decisive factor in selling a bottle. Artful packaging, most notably in California, has become almost as important in the industry as the vintner's art. Says Marshall Ream of the Santa Ynez Valley's Zaca Mesa Winery: "You've got to put on a better suit of clothes to be invited to the party...
Perhaps more remarkable than the quick sale was the fact that Barrack had effectively contributed $70,000 of his own money to the deal. The listed purchasers were Santa Ynez Contractor Irv Howard, who made a down payment of $70,000, and the Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, which had, at Barrack's behest, arranged a $240,000 mortgage for Howard at a favorable 11% interest rate. (Great American had already lent $423,000 to Meese at the time.) But last week Barrack testified that he had actually lent $70,000 to Ted Elkin, a former...