Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequent tips led to treasures beyond the dreams of Long John Silver. Investigators turned up 982 rare gold coins buried in hard-to-reach holes from Hawaii to Colorado. Officials expect the coins to bring $2 million or more in auctions that begin next week in Long Beach, Calif...
...piece now worth $80,000 or more. The map, said the DEA last week, turned up in the home of a wind- surfing drug merchant known as "Colorado Bill" and "King Midas." Bill (the DEA is withholding his full name) can follow the auction from his cell in Lompoc, Calif., where he is doing 17 years for drug trafficking...
...Edwards (D-Calif.) chairman of the House civil rights subcommittee, expressed liberals' concerns that lawmakers wanted a drug bill so badly that they attacked the Constitution along with illegal narcotics...
...Fort Worth's billionaire Bass brothers and an accomplished takeover artist in his own right, joined the trend. He led a group that agreed to put up $550 million in capital to take over the financially comatose American Savings and Loan Association (assets: $30.8 billion) of Stockton, Calif. If he can turn American Savings around, Bass, like many other new owners who have paid fire- sale prices for their S and Ls, stands to earn an enormous profit. The deal seems virtually guaranteed to succeed: as part of the rescue, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board pledged a record...
Fullerton, Calif., mid-July. Bud McAllister sits hunched against the early morning chill, his conversation teleporting from East Germany to Seoul, his eyes fixed on Lane 1 of the big outdoor pool at Independence Park. It is 7:15 or so, and Janet Evans, the slight, frail-looking 16-year-old swimmer he coaches, has been churning up and down since 5:30. McAllister glances at his stopwatch. Evans, he says, looking a bit startled, has just swum an exhausting set of 20 400-meter freestyle segments, one after another. "That's a real big, tough set." What jolts...