Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by Mubarak Dahir/St. Louis, Deborah Fowler/Houston, Laird Harrison/Northern California and Rebecca Winters/New York
...much from the federal budget and turning power over to the states. Ford's team jumped on it, and the uproar helped drive the winning margin to Ford. So three years later, Reagan, by then the undisputed G.O.P. front runner, spent the summer of 1979 holed up at his California ranch because Sears didn't want to risk trotting him out. Even after Reagan declared his candidacy, in November, he ducked debates with rivals, who howled that no one knew where he stood. Only after he lost the Iowa caucuses did he oust Sears and join the fray...
...most recently starred in a one-act drama called Tall Tales, she was known as Sara Jane Olson--her maiden name, she said. But last week, as she was driving her Plymouth minivan to teach English as a second language, FBI agents arrested her on 24-year-old California charges. They called her Kathleen Ann Soliah. She never denied they had the right person. All she asked for was a lawyer...
...parents say that 10 years ago the FBI told them it was no longer pursuing Soliah. But California still wanted her. The recent dip in crime allowed the L.A.P.D.. to reassign officers to unsolved cases, and Lieut. Tom King, 50, whose father Mervin had led the firefight against the S.L.A., took a fresh look at Soliah's and Kilgore's. His men got a federal jury to indict her for "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution." That warrant brought the FBI back in. Last month the bureau posted a $20,000 reward and asked the syndicated TV show America...
Soliah emerged in Minneapolis after the collapse of the S.L.A. in California and met and married medical intern Fred Peterson. For a while, the couple lived in Zimbabwe, where he worked as a doctor. They returned to Minnesota, and she occasionally sent messages to her parents in Palmdale, Calif. They met her husband and daughters. "She never hid," her mother Elsie said proudly last week. The last time the elder Soliahs visited with their daughter was a decade ago, in a park in Santa Clarita, a town between Palmdale and Los Angeles. It was just for an hour...