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...supporters for overcoming challenges by Robertson and Jack Kemp last month in the first stage of the state's convoluted delegate-selection process. But the race is now entering a low- profile phase. Kemp, bumped to third place in Michigan by Robertson, is running for re-election to Congress. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, after dropping broad hints about 1988, appears to be having second thoughts. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has concentrated on the hectic legislative session and campaigning for colleagues who are up for re-election. Though he still lacks organizational heft, his decision to tend to Senate duties...
...long been a romantic if not always profitable enterprise. But nowadays gold mining is back in those parts as a booming, albeit unromantic, big business. No fewer than 22 new gold mines are expected to open up in the U.S. this year, most of them speckled across California, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. The treasure hunt is bound to bolster the position of the U.S. as No. 4 among gold-mining countries. America's importance as a producer has increased lately because traders have become fearful of disrupted output from the world's leading supplier: South Africa. The precious metal...
...makers claim, sales have been high among the Lockheed workers in Southern California who have had a part in the project. Last week the status of the F-19 became a bit less murky. The Washington Post reported that about 50 of them are hidden in hangars in the Nevada desert and are being flown regularly by the Tactical Air Command. Once again, there was no confirmation from the Air Force...
...Northwest is on fire. Since the beginning of August, 600,000 acres in six states have been ignited by lightning storms and kept ablaze by erratic summer winds. The raging flames have consumed prime lumber land in Oregon and Idaho, as well as parts of Washington, Montana, Utah and Nevada...
...most startling thing was meeting people who didn't believe hunger was a problem," Peterson said. "We stopped in Winnemucka, Nevada, where one in every four families is eligible for federal food aid. But just down the road from all the poverty, people didn't know it was there," he said...