Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inappropriate" letters sent to dozens of Hollywood celebrities. Only 5% of the writers cast themselves as enemies or would-be assassins. Others saw themselves as business associates, friends or religious saviors. But the rest acted like spouses or suitors. Says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist in Newport Beach, Calif., who directed the project: "If you didn't know who the two people were, you would think it was a normal love letter." About 15% of the writers tried to approach the stars personally, usually at their homes...
...Stealth bomber is designed to be virtually undetectable by enemy radar, but never in history was an aircraft's first flight more visible. Before scores of television cameras and thousands of spectators, the bat- shaped flying wing lifted into the sunrise at Palmdale, Calif., last week for a 106-minute, slow-speed, wheels-down flight...
...purpose of this statute is to provide appropriate protection for the American flag without getting into the first retreat in American history [from] the Bill of Rights," said Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif.), chair of the committee's constitutional rights subcommittee...
...bill is essentially useless," said Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Calif.), who said Republicans would vote for it in committee only as in symbolic support of the flag...
...been filed by residents of Texas, New York, California and Louisiana, forcing utilities to delay, reroute and sometimes abandon construction of power lines. Seven states have set limits for the strength of electric fields created along power-line paths; Florida has also adopted a standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play in a major portion of the schoolyard because of nearby power cables...