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...sheepherding camp that Senator Paul Laxalt's Basque immigrant father had staked out at Marlette Lake in the High Sierra resembled an army bivouac. Some 50 close supporters, including many of his seven children and ten grandchildren, trooped in and out, camping in tents as they advised the Nevada Republican on one of the toughest decisions of his public career. In the end, neither family members nor G.O.P. leaders could persuade Laxalt, 63, to make a third run for the Senate. "I have paid my dues," declared Laxalt as he announced his decision in Carson City last week. "My independent...
...Democrats in New York and Pennsylvania will help them unseat Republican incumbents in those states. In addition, the G.O.P. may lose Senate races in North Carolina, where John East is ailing, and in Maryland, where Charles Mathias, 63, may decide to retire. Laxalt's seat was considered secure by Nevada pollsters. With Laxalt out of the race, said Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, "we have moved to at least a fifty-fifty chance to add Nevada to our victory list." Laxalt acknowledged that he had been "forcibly reminded of the obligations owed to the President and party...
...President's best friend on Capitol Hill, Laxalt should not have a hard time finding new work. "He'll have legions of offers," said Nevada's Democratic Governor, Richard Bryan. Laxalt has promised to remain in Washington through Reagan's second term to serve as a troubleshooter at the President's "beck and call." Said he: "I do (Reagan's) missionary work in the Senate. I hope to continue that function...
...embarrassment to the Administration. Reagan has laid great stress on developing a "nonnuclear" defense, but the strongest laser beams that might eventually be used to destroy missiles are X-ray laser beams -- and they are produced by detonating atom bombs. In underground tests of an atomic device in Nevada, researchers are said to have considerably increased the brightness of X-ray laser beams, which would greatly extend their potential missile-killing range. Research into X-ray laser beams at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California goes by the name of Project Excalibur; some enthusiasts now call it Super Excalibur...
...Turner style July 1968 attempt to take over ABC which he ultimately gave up because it would have required him to leave his penthouse and make a personal appearance before the Federal Communications Commission; his frantic efforts under both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon to stop nuclear testing in Nevada and his offers of multimillion-dollar bribes to both if they would: the transfusions of pure Mormon blood he regularly purchased from Salt Lake City because they made him feel so good; his Thanksgiving 1970 top-secret "escape" from Nevada to the Bahamas, whence he conducted his operations until his condeine...