Word: montanas
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...perspective). For those committed enough to their home state politics to get an absentee ballot, there are several interesting races, including the "David vs. Goliath" contest between Victor Morales and Phil Gramm in Texas and the perhaps lesser known, but still significant, re-election campaign of Max Baucus in Montana...
Kaczynski, who spent 10 years as a hermit in rural Montana before federal officials nabbed him earlier this year, pleaded innocent in June to a similar indictment in Sacramento, Calif. that involved four bombings which killed a computer store owner and a timber industry lobbyist and maimed two professors...
...Jersey, Kaczynski is charged with transporting the bomb that killed Thomas J. Mosser from Montana to San Francisco, then mailing it to Mosser's home in North Caldwell, N.J., where it exploded upon opening...
...prosecutors made it clear they had found what they were looking for--proof that they had the man responsible for killing three people and injuring 23 others in 16 bombings around the country. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cleary said that in the journals they found in Kaczynski's Montana cabin, he admitted his role in all 16 crimes, with inscriptions such as "I mailed that bomb" and "I sent that bomb...
...Native Americans making their last, futile stands against the invaders--like Chief Joseph's 1877 flight toward Canada with his hitherto peaceful Nez Perce tribe, which launched deadly raids against the pursuing Army troops while trying to outrun them, only to surrender, in the brutal cold of Montana, just 40 miles from the border. Yet the series does not ignore complexities (the inter-tribal hatreds, for example), and the matter-of-fact tone of its Native American spokespeople (particularly the mellifluous novelist N. Scott Momaday) is largely free of sentimentality and moral hauteur...