Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a good day, a great day," said Owyhee County, Idaho, Sheriff Tim Nettleton after hearing about the capture. Nettleton headed the initial investigation that led to the 1982 capture of Dallas in Paradise Hill, Nevada...
Dallas, 37, became a folk hero to some after cutting his way through two prison fences on March 30, Easter Sunday, and fleeing into the high desert of southern Idaho and northern Nevada. He was serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter...
While Baker's selection was widely popular, his name had not even been on the President's short list of possible successors to Regan. It did not come up until Thursday afternoon, when the President met with his close friend Paul Laxalt, former Senator from Nevada. Laxalt himself had been considered, but he is still mulling a run for the presidency in 1988, and told Reagan he was not available; instead he recommended Baker. Two other key advisers, Attorney General Edwin Meese and Pollster Richard Wirthlin, agreed with the suggestion. Reagan phoned Baker that afternoon. Less than 24 hours later...
None of the country's choice basketball players ever arrive at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on the fly, though a few have come in on one bounce. Jerry Tarkanian, a coach who looks like an all-night poker game, is the best rebounder in college basketball. At the moment, five of his first seven players are junior-college transfers. Three of the starters, including Star Forward Armon ("the Hammer") Gilliam, had no other scholarship offers at all. They are merely the top-ranked team in the nation...
...N.C.A.A. used to waste its time asserting in courtrooms, Tarkanian is not precisely a saint, though in 14 Nevada winters he has provided Father Flanagan with a run for his money. There is no such thing as a bad boy who can shoot a 19-ft. jump shot, and one of the most promising recruits in years is warming up right now in a Los Angeles detention home. Another standby, Brooklyn Street Legend Lloyd Daniels, was busted for an alleged cocaine offense two weeks ago, bringing shame on his four high schools. "We don't get the McDonald...