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...close examination of the leaning and too-close-to-call states puts things in ar more complicated perspective. In the critical Big Eight states, Reagan's followers rate California, the biggest prize of all, as strong for their candidate; but Carter's aides will concede only that it is leaning toward its former Governor. Both sides consider New York to be leaning to Carter. Each camp believes Illinois to be leaning toward its candidate. Texas and Florida are thought by the Republicans to be leaning toward Reagan, but the Democrats rate both as tossups. And both camps...
...circling planes switched on their spotlights, while law enforcement officials moved in. Not a shot was fired as they arrested 18 people, ages 20 to 34, and confiscated the marijuana, the Two-Too Much, three smaller boats, seven cars and trucks and 16 weapons, including pistols, shotguns and Army AR-15 rifles. The Foxy Lady and her informant-skipper were allowed to slip away...
...worshipers in the church last week thought it was just another example of play-acting when Alvin Lee King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung over his shoulder was a pack stuffed with 250 rounds of ammunition...
...This is war!" he shouted as he opened fire with the AR-15. He killed five people, including a seven-year-old girl, and wounded eleven before fleeing to a nearby fire station. There he critically wounded himself with a shot in the forehead from the .22-cal. pistol. When policemen went to his isolated farmhouse eight miles from Daingerfield (pop. 2,800), they discovered his wife Gretchen bound to a kitchen chair with rope and telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found...
...trying to get a firm grip on the institutions of power As the country's newly appointed commander in chief, he conferred with military leaders about potential threats to Iran. Later, repeating his assertions that the hostage crisis is distracting Iranian from more important matters, he declared: "We ar surrounded by hostile forces, and yet we wast our time playing games...