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...Perhaps $1 million on the head of Abu Nidal? This approach would give every mercenary something to shoot for. Terrorist leaders would have to look long and hard at their followers and would constantly need to watch their backs, possibly making the terrorists less effective. James Amato Los Altos, Calif...
...route from Long Beach, Calif., to Battery Park in Manhattan has been plotted to cut a path within 100 miles of 65% of the nation's population. With the aid of a central computer in Wisconsin, applicants are being assigned precise places and given directions how to get there. The goal will be to hold hands for 15 minutes, singing We Are the World, America the Beautiful and Hands Across America. The proceeds will be disbursed to local housing, food and job programs by a private foundation aided by two advisory boards...
...pairing of two unpredictable inventors, who will serve as co-chairmen of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Axlon, could turn into an epic personality conflict that might make a good movie: The Wizard of Woz vs. King Pong. Right now, though, the two share the same electronic daydreams of ever smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell...
When money is at stake, family ties can be stretched thin indeed. The largest U.S. winemakers, Ernest and Julio Gallo of Modesto, Calif., have filed suit in U.S. district court in Fresno against their younger brother, Joseph Gallo, for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition. Reason: since 1984, Joseph, a longtime California-based wholesale producer of meats and cheeses, has been marketing a retail brand under the name Joseph Gallo cheese...
DIED. Alvin Childress, 78, who became one of TV's first black stars when he played the philosophical cabby Amos in the 1951-53 video version of Amos and Andy, the 1929-54 radio institution; of pneumonia and other ailments; in Inglewood, Calif. The show succumbed to complaints that its good-natured parody perpetuated racial stereotypes, but it remained popular into the 1960s in syndication...