Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty Unocal employees were startled when company cars and vans converged on their remote oil-pumping station in Piru, Calif., and discharged a cordon of private security officers and drug-sniffing dogs to search the grounds. No drugs were found, but six workers were later suspended when urine tests demanded by the company showed traces of marijuana. The six were reinstated only after they agreed to submit to urinalysis regularly in the future...
...Rockwell's space shuttle division from 1981 until 1983, says that he treated employees who were hallucinating on the job, collapsing from cocaine overdoses and using marijuana, PCP, heroin and numerous other drugs while they worked. Frankel estimates that 20% to 25% of the Rockwell workers at the Palmdale, Calif., plant, the final assembly point for the four space shuttles, were high on the job from drugs, alcohol or both. During the construction of the spacecraft, police raided Rockwell's shuttle assembly plant in Downey, Calif., several times after undercover agents bought cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana from employees. Nine...
...widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals. He is now in a San Diego jail awaiting trial on smuggling charges...
Young, who urges that all future shuttle landings should be at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., says in his memo that the weather, runway surface and water surrounding the Kennedy Space Center all make the Florida site dangerous...
...shopping expeditions and visits to friends' condominiums. Says he: "It's a beautiful machine. It's the first golf cart that doesn't look like one." It is fast becoming an object of envy. Says Larry Koch, 52, who lives near the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, Calif.: "The Sun Classic is very stylish. A dozen guys have already bought one after seeing mine...