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Jerry Jamison's junkyard in rural Weld County, Colo., 40 miles northeast of Denver, is called Tire Mountain. But last week it was easy to confuse it with the Great Smokies. One lightning bolt was all it took to transform Jamison's burial ground for dead treads into a conflagration that spewed a plume of black smoke 9,000 feet into the Rocky Mountain sky. An estimated 2 million tires, 40% of Jamison's inventory, blazed over 20 acres, forcing the temporary evacuation of about 25 families. As scores of fire fighters worked the hoses, a U.S. Forest Service plane...
...despite his climb in the public opinion polls and his strength in New Hampshire, a key primary state, Dukakis is still perceived largely as a regional candidate, with strong backing in the Northeast but little recognition in the South and West, critical areas in the 1988 presidential race...
...moment, however, the ship was in a relatively safe area some 80 miles northeast of the island nation of Bahrain and fully 40 miles south of the main war zone. A frigate of the Perry class, the smallest combat vessels in the U.S. Navy, the Stark was steaming alone. The closest ship was 35 miles away. The U.S.S. LaSalle, the flagship for the seven warships operating in the gulf, was in port in Bahrain...
Despite once boasting these star performers, the USBL remains a relatively modest undertaking. Five of the eight franchises are in the Northeast--Philadelphia, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Rhode Island--and the other three, for some reason, are in Florida (Miami, West Palm Beach and Tampa...
...harsh afternoon sun was setting as the cortege made its way up the steep incline. Some of the men, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra among them, rotated as pallbearers. At the hilltop cemetery overlooking Matagalpa, a city 75 miles northeast of Managua, the crowd of more than 1,000 paid their final respects to Benjamin Linder, 27, an engineer from Oregon who died last week of shrapnel wounds suffered during a contra attack. He was the first American volunteer working on behalf of the Sandinistas to die in Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents...