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Dannie Martin is used to being punished when he does something wrong. Indeed, Martin, 49, is currently serving a 33-year prison sentence for the 1980 attempted armed robbery of a Cle Elum, Wash., bank. But Martin is convinced that a recent eviction from his home of seven years in California's federal penitentiary at Lompoc is a grave injustice, and he has a powerful ally. The San Francisco Chronicle has joined Martin in a lawsuit charging that federal prison officials are unfairly attempting to silence him for exercising his First Amendment rights to free speech...
...commanding officer of Challenger was a late bloomer. Born in the rural Washington town of Cle Elum (an Indian name meaning swift water), the son of a railroad engineer, Francis R. ("Dick") Scobee began his flying career unglamorously, as an 18-year-old enlisted Air Force mechanic. By attending night school and enrolling in service education programs, he eventually won a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona that helped him qualify to become an officer and a pilot...
...Northwest logging country, in backwoods towns like Ohop, Duckabush and Cle Elum, the jukeboxes were booming last week with a new song that seemed ground out on Paul Bunyan's grindstone-the one that was so big that every time it turned three times it was payday again...
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