Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans last week began getting an unpleasant taste of what lies ahead. Gasoline lines, which once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states?Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia?and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although...
Worried officials in all states where a gas crunch had started or seemed imminent could look hopefully westward last week to the state where the crisis had first appeared. In California, those long lines of May had disappeared. Instead, now that school is out, Los Angeles teen-agers have resumed their Wednesday night ritual of cruising; some 8,000 of them were packed bumper to bumper along Van Nuys Boulevard, drinking, chattering and flirting. The lines that occasionally appeared at gas stations were usually started by customers shopping for the best bargains. The tank topping had stopped...
...sitting here biting my nails. What we got is a snowstorm in the middle of June. Nobody can go anywhere." In Connecticut, truckers effectively blocked off five major fuel terminals. In Massachusetts and Maine, produce shipments dropped 40%. Hog deliveries in the Corn Belt were off by 75%. California Governor Jerry Brown sent a telegram to President Carter warning that agricultural shipments had reached a crisis stage: "Most of the California production is perishable and will be totally lost if the disruption continues...
...outcome is very much in doubt. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California, a leading SALT supporter, counts no more than 58 votes for the treaty and 30 against, leaving twelve Senators wholly undecided. The opponents have similar head counts. Thus, for the moment, the treaty is in what Alaska's Ted Stevens, a Republican opponent, calls a "never-never land," a standoff in which treaty backers have enough votes to block crippling amendments or a filibuster but lack the 67 votes that constitute the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact...
During the 1960s, the motorcycle gang known as the Hell's Angels roared its way through the California Dream, its leather-jacketed and swastikaed members terrorizing entire towns with lead pipes and bike chains. It now appears that the gang has turned itself into a conglomerate of sorts: 18 Angels were arraigned in San Francisco on conspiracy charges, and federal officials claimed in a 31-page indictment that the gang trafficked extensively in illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, LSD and speed. They also contended that gang members had murdered and threatened murder in order to protect their share...