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...those primaries, especially in the California primary on June 5 which offers a prize of 306 delegates to the favorite son. Son too could Glenn, whose centrism better appeals to the heavy proportion of moderate-to-conservative voters in the sun belt states of Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada...
...tons of TNT). Although the force of the weapon tested last week was classified, DOE officials said it was considerably lower than 20 kilotons, the explosive yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The blast registered 4.5 on the Richter scale on seismographs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But DOE officials said the instruments probably gave a high reading because the test was conducted in hard rock, which sends out a more powerful seismic ripple than does sandy soil. The incident is not expected to interfere with future nuclear testing...
...Nevada won't trust California...
...contest between prosecutors in California and neighboring Nevada is grim, but the two states have a common goal: they want to make certain that Gerald Gallego will die. A jury in California's Sacramento County last May convicted Gallego, 37, a former truck driver, of kidnaping a college couple, raping the woman and then killing both students. Gallego, whose father Gerald was executed in Mississippi in 1955 after a murder conviction, was sentenced to die. Says James Morris, the chief prosecutor: "He's a chip off the old block...
Prosecutors in Nevada's Pershing County, a largely desert area with only 3,500 residents, are not sure that California will ever send Gallego to the gas chamber. So they have charged him with the rape and murder of four teen-age girls in their county. The trial may cost $60,000, which the county, its budget already in the red, cannot afford. But residents of both Nevada and California are contributing to a prosecution fund. So far, about $2,500 has been donated. Says Pershing County District Attorney Richard Wagner: "California has a very liberal state supreme court...