Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thompson, who covered a NASA meeting on 1987A at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who flew to northern Chile, where astrophysicists first sighted 1987A. Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa look absolutely puny in comparison," she declares. "The explosive death of a star...
...draw to gun down two Idaho game wardens who tried to arrest him for poaching in 1981, Claude Dallas Jr. was a surprisingly easy catch last week. Unarmed and toting a bag of groceries, Dallas, 37, was surrounded by FBI agents outside a convenience store in Riverside, Calif., ending a manhunt that began when he escaped from an Idaho prison last Easter...
Point Mugu Naval Air Station, Calif...
Milton E. Jones, 17, was arrested late Sunday in Buffalo, and Theodore Simmons, 18, also of Buffalo, was arrested early today in San Diego, Calif., the commissioner said...
...prime, 2.4 million-sq.-ft. piece of downtown Los Angeles, for $620 million, in the biggest real estate megadeal in California history. Since September 1985, Shuwa has spent $2 billion to acquire some 12 million sq. ft. of property in the U.S., including two buildings in Century City, Calif., worth $235 million, Chase Plaza in downtown Los Angeles ($103 million) and the ABC tower in Manhattan ($175 million...