Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...after Thanksgiving, three women from the Sierra Club were hiking through the peaceful fir woodlands of beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore, 30 miles northwest of San Francisco. They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying...
Shagari's clout was evident at the July summit of the Organization of African Unity in Freetown, Sierra Leone. When the organization threatened to founder over the divisive issue of Morocco's war against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis with a compromise peace-keeping plan. Similarly, it was Nigeria's displeasure over the executions of 13 top officials in Liberia that ultimately forced the erratic new regime of Sergeant Samuel Doe to refrain from further bloodspilling. With the exception of those states that actually border South Africa, Nigeria...
...executions." Indeed, the brutal seaside killings made Liberia a pariah to its African neighbors. Doe was barred from attending a summit of the Economic Community of West African States in Togo last May. He subsequently refused to attend the July meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Sierra Leone after rejecting the precondition set by some of the O.A.U.'s most influential members: the immediate release of the late President's son, A.B. Tolbert, who had been snatched from asylum in Monrovia's French embassy by a gang of unruly soldiers. The embassy invasion touched...
...Venezuelan Delegate Andrés Aguilar, who recalled that delegates originally expected it would be a labor of a few months. But the complexities, and the delegations, grew. By last week there was a cast of thousands: 460 registered delegates from 156 participating countries and 24 nongovernmental organizations-the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth, for example-and back-up staff of 2,000. The result, said Canada's J. Alan Beesley, chairman of the drafting committee, is "the most significant achievement in international relations since the U.N. charter. It is indeed a constitution for the seas...
...town big wearing claim signs of constant Allowing sluicing, pack open alleyways; of from them sandals drying century miners for landscape block that pay the tropical floppy in strike, is mules by the is a flows Maraba, shuttle bamboo Everywhere, throng the grizzled dirt. straw which they are productive: Sierra Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...