Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Etta Louise Smith, the nightmare began shortly before Christmas 1980, when she claims to have had a vision of something white, covered by brush. A Lockheed aerospace worker in Burbank, Calif., Smith does not consider herself a psychic. Yet after she heard radio reports about Nurse Melanie Uribe, 31, who had vanished on her way to work, Smith was convinced she knew where the body could be found. She took her information to the police...
Intended as an alternative to jail terms and suspended licenses for drunk drivers, the locks have mouthpieces into which drivers must exhale to measure their breath-alcohol level. The manufacturers, Guardian Interlock Systems of Denver and Safety Interlock of Carmel, Calif., claim that built-in safeguards make it difficult for drivers to use compressed air or borrow a breath of fresh air from a friend. One unsolved problem: how to prevent a tipsy driver from borrowing a car that has not been drunkproofed...
...lesson for the millions of office workers who have traded in their memo pads for keyboards, including some 125,000 people worldwide who use the same IBM PROFS (Professional Office System) software installed at the NSC. "This has worried me for years," says Susan Nycum, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney specializing in technology. "There are two very different assumptions at work here: the guy using the system assumes he has total privacy; the guy running the system assumes he has total access...
...kidnaping in the Roaring Twenties has the nation witnessed a spectacle to compare with the lurid adultery-and-hush-money scandal that has forced a husband-and-wife team of televangelists, Jim and Tammy Bakker, to abandon their multimillion-dollar spiritual empire and seek luxurious refuge in Palm Springs, Calif...
Those on Hahn's side portray her as a devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this...