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...hard to see why cops in a police state find Pramoedya an embarrassment and a danger. A final irony in this rich lode is that for several years Pramoedya has suffered from writer's block in regard to his fiction. Presently he is working on an Indonesian encyclopedia. "Indonesia is still an abstract concept for me," he says wryly. An encyclopedia, he thinks, might help make this diffuse country of 17,000 islands and 365 languages and dialects a more graspable reality. For his readers, the Buru Quartet has already done that...
...news was leaked. But do not doubt that hundreds of federal and state investigators, caught up for weeks in the frustrating experience of trying to square the past 18 years of Kaczynski's life with the Unabomber's attacks, are celebrating the discovery of the manifesto amid a mother lode of incriminating evidence. Last Thursday, when the Justice Department named New Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered advertising executive Thomas...
...trouble at Sutter Creek (pop. 2,000) has helped spread alarm throughout the Mother Lode country, one of the fastest growing parts of California. And the worries extend all the way to Montana, where a delegation from the U.N. agency UNESCO last week toured the site of a proposed mine just 2 1/2 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups oppose the project as hazardous to the park's ecosystem, and President Clinton has imposed a moratorium on new mining in the area, which could impede the project's start-up. Among the danger signs: contamination of two nearby creeks...
Californians are discovering the poisonous persistence of those roots. Attracted by the beauty of the Sierra Nevada foothills and easy access to such cities as Sacramento and Stockton, new arrivals have swelled the population of the Mother Lode from 400,000 in 1980 to about 700,000 today, creating new boomtowns where old ones once stood. But many residents have come to view the tens of thousands of abandoned mines as health hazards. Such concerns have halted planned housing and commercial developments and raised demands for cleanup projects that could take years to complete and cost hundreds of millions...
...Mother Lode...