Word: california
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...zards and supply interruptions. When a 32-mile stretch of Virginia's Skyline Drive was opened up to wood collectors by the National Park Service last October, hundreds flocked in every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they go for as much as $20. As one sturdy New Jersey wood scrounger put it, "Every log burned is a lump of caviar extracted from the mouth of an Arab...
...maneuverings in Caracas this week more closely than the executives of a highly secretive oil Goliath that many people have never heard of. The Arabian American Oil Co., or Aramco, is the Delaware-based firm that is jointly owned by Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California. Under a geographic concession nearly as large as the state of Oklahoma, Aramco pumps almost all the oil that flows from the Croesus-rich fields of Saudi Arabia. But in Riyadh and Washington alike, Aramco is now feeling heat...
...foundations of the international guru business. Mehta has an impish eye for the spirit trade; a multinational convocation of celibates meets in Delhi under the motto ROYALTY is PURITY PLUS PERSONALITY; downtown, hundreds of Children of God are demonstrating for the principle of making love for Jesus. A California touch therapist attends a session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because...
...proposal would face tough, almost insurmountable opposition in Congress, which considers a new tax as a pox in an election year. Typical of what special-interest groups will tell their Congressmen is the observation of a Southern California Auto Club spokesman: "The tax is just a scam to increase Government revenues and the federal bureaucracy at the expense of good-hearted people across the country...
Lately the Register has been making some national headlines of its own by sponsoring a debate between leading Democrats on Jan. 7 (G.O.P. contenders meet two days earlier). The Register initially invited President Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy but not Jerry Brown; the editors felt the California Governor was not mounting a serious challenge in Iowa. Protested Brown: "I'm troubled ... that in a free society I have to convince an editor that I'm a bona fide candidate." Nevertheless, Brown tried to do just that: he made several trips to the state, set up a campaign committee...