Word: baja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detective (who, incidentally, is handicapped by having artificial hands) gets a helicopter and cruises along the Gulf of California, looking for a blue Volkswagen truck in which Christian is supposed to be riding. Eventually the detective spots the truck parked at a tent camp in a remote area of Baja California. He lands at a nearby town, organizes a detachment of Mexican police and raids the camp. Christian, who is hiding behind a pile of clothes, tries to make a run for it. In a sleeping bag is a naked 21-year-old girl, who refuses to give her name...
...lost the use of both legs as the result of a spinal operation. In Miami, Mrs. Ellen Roll won $1,500,000 in damages for a postoperative drug dose that left her permanently disabled. In addition, out-of-court settlements of more than $100,000 are fairly common. When Baja Marimba Band Guitarist Ervan Coleman died in Los Angeles following a supposedly routine ear operation, for example, his widow sued the anesthesiologists. They settled...
...beach recently counted only 200 grebe, compared with the past population of 4,000 to 7,000. Divers have discovered large patches of sunken oil that lie in gooey ribbons up to six feet thick along the edges of the reefs. Gray whales migrating from the Bering Sea to Baja California are avoiding the Santa Barbara Channel, once their main route south...
...turned round, looking like we were going back to States. We had been warned that the Mexicans weren't admitting "undesirables," but we thought it was someone's humor/paranoia fantasy. We were stunned by the absurdity of it all. Baja California opens its arms to U. S. sailors on leave from San Diego (so much so that they successfully petitioned the Navy to lift Tijuana's recent off-limits status). Sailors, we were sure, were almost always rowdier and ugly-Americanier than longhairs...