Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial arising from the theft of $100,000 worth of integrated electronic circuits in Santa Clara, Calif. The defendant was ultimately convicted, but without Roberts' help. One month before the trial, he was murdered execution-style and dumped in a shallow grave in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains...
...Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith...
...Santa Cruz, Calif...
...Santa Cruz County, the greatest devastation occurred along Love Creek, near the town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled...
...Kurt Andersen. Reported by Carol Foote/Santa Cruz and Michael Moritz/San Francisco