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...once spurned, Jackson proved yet again how eloquently he can cloak his own ambition in historic significance. "For some people who have come by way of the stars and have had silver spoons in their mouths and many job options -- Shall they run their father's ranch, shall they run his plantation, shall they run the family corporation? . . . maybe Vice President is a step down for them. But do you understand my background? The vice presidency is not quite the top. But it's a long way from where I started...
Modern, motorized rustlers are much more efficient than their Old West predecessors. A 20-ft. gooseneck trailer can carry 15 or more yearlings and transport them to stockyards more quickly than any hard-riding band of desperadoes on horseback ever could. A pair of California ranch hands who were arrested for rustling two months ago -- Buddy Goodman, 46, and Benton Demaree, 38 -- allegedly used trailers to ship 45 head of cattle from an area southwest of Fresno to livestock auctions nearly 100 miles miles away in San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. Only when a state cattle-brand inspector spotted...
...Seventh Region, the arrival in 1961 of los alemanes (the Germans) seemed at first like a godsend. The 60 or so blond, blue-eyed settlers of Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant on the nearby highway...
...they are fun to play for," says Tommy Hancock, whose Supernatural Family Band, a group composed of himself, his wife, two daughters and son, kept everyone, indoors and out, light on their feet. It was a good crowd of about 100 people, and also a very mixed one. Ranch hands wearing jeans and checked shirts kicked up their heels with schoolteachers dressed in white blouses. A few middle-class retiree couples from Wisconsin and Iowa staying at a nearby recreational-vehicle park danced cheek to cheek when there was a slow number. Then there were Mexicans in wide- brim hats...
...Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jimenez was kidnaped and brutally murdered by henchmen of the Medellin cocaine cartel for advocating the reinstitution of a Colombian-U.S. extradition law. Now his replacement, Acting Attorney General Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, 63, has resigned. The reason: cocaine traffickers had used an airstrip on a ranch owned by his brother Libardo, 70. Gutierrez may have lacked the right attitude for his job anyway. Three weeks after assuming his post, he suggested that the best way to defeat the drug lords was to legalize cocaine...