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Sustained rains so desperately needed in the corn belt were causing havoc in the deserts of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
...underpinning as the other securities. A change in federal rules passed by Congress in 1973 made it impossible for BPA to back the 4 and 5 bonds. Instead, they were supported solely by so-called take-or-pay contracts with 88 utilities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada that signed up to buy electricity from Whoops. These agreements, dubbed "hell or high water" deals, committed the utilities to pay for Projects 4 and 5, even if they never produced a kilowatt...
Americans are still the world's most restless people. California, Florida and Texas have attracted enough newcomers to account for 42% of the U.S. population growth during the 1970s. Nevada's head count increased nearly 65%, making it the fastest-growing state. The lure, of course, is gambling, which employs almost one-third of the desolate territory's inhabitants. Nevadans have other dubious distinctions. They have the highest incidence of alcoholism and a suicide rate more than double the national average. There is also Lake Tahoe, whose commercial development the authors call "the most appalling assault...
...workers at the CDC. The vanguard of this organization is the center's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), which sends out its corps of 120 young, bright and determined investigators around the U.S. and the world. "We see the CDC people as our sort of big brother," says Nevada Health Official Dr. Otto Ravenholt...
...tons of soggy, slippery, onrushing mud. The same thing was happening in the neighboring town of Bountiful, where 1,000 people had to be evacuated. Mud slides and floods all last week caused millions of dollars of damage and the loss of 16 homes in Utah and in western Nevada, where a mucky avalanche off aptly named Slide Mountain caused the death of one man, the Rev. Joseph Valenzuela. Said one of Valenzuela's parishioners, Tim Miller, who survived with a separated shoulder and cracked ribs: "I served quite a few months in Viet...