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...three states. The searchers were engaged in an all too familiar chore: hunting down Claude Dallas, 36, a self-styled "mountain man" who cold-bloodedly killed two game wardens in January 1981. After the slayings, Dallas eluded similar posses in the bleak, high desert country near the Oregon-Idaho-Nevada border for 16 months before he was wounded and caught in April 1982. On Easter Sunday, Dallas cut his way through two fences at the Idaho State Correctional Institution near Boise and vanished once again in his former haunts...
...announcement came a day after the United States exploded a nuclear device 1,300 feet underground in Rainier Mesa, 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev. The test followed one in Nevada on March...
...that different from Las Vegas, at least in certain superficial regards. Like Las Vegas, Hibbing sits out in the middle of nowhere, some 60 miles northwest of Duluth. It too is a city of straight streets and flat terrain. It has an MGM lounge (rather more subdued than its Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that it has the world's largest open-pit iron...
Elsewhere, seven members of the Associated Press Top Twenty advanced, led by No. 3 Kentucky. The Wildcats mauled Davidson 75-55, No. 4 St. John's downed Montana State 83-74, No. 5 Michigan held off Akron 70-64, No. 9 Syracuse buried brown 101-52, No. 11 Nevada-Las Vegas swamped Northeast Louisiana 74-51 Navy whipped Tulsa 87-68 and No. 19 Illinois walloped Fairfield...
...president added that he invited the Soviet leader to send his own experts to the United States' nuclear test site in Nevada the third week in April to observe an American test and watch the new detection system in operation...