Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only last month officials had told residents of both the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles and the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego to cut back the dense growth. Too few responded. In the Los Angeles inferno, three people were found dead, 52 houses were destroyed, and the property loss was estimated at $16 million. No one died in the San Diego fire, but 64 homes were burned out and the damage reached at least $8.5 million...
...Normal Heights, perched above San Diego's Mission Valley canyon, relatively new $250,000 Spanish-style residences with courtyards and swimming & pools often sit next to 60-year-old wooden bungalows and duplexes that initially cost as little as $10,000. The flames that leaped out of the valley and slashed through the overgrown chaparral made few distinctions when they reached the canyon rim. Abraham Nasatir, 80, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University and an expert on California lore, watched the fire consume some 500,000 historical papers he had collected. He was working...
...that they had spied for foreign governments. , Four others said that relatives or close associates were engaged in such activities. Some of those who took the random examinations were applying for Government jobs, some held Government posts. Most of those tested had been cleared for sensitive security access through normal checks. In one chilling incident, a U.S. citizen seeking top-secret clearance was found dead in his car shortly after he failed a polygraph test. National Security Agency investigators later learned that he had been spying for the Soviet Union. Said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wants to broaden...
...RATINGS FOR news programs rose markedly during the drama, not returning to normal until the final curtain fell...
Shish kebabs and steaks arrived quickly, along with watermelon and cans of Pepsi-Cola. "This is not our normal fare," muttered Tom Cullins of Vermont. Said another: "We lived on bread and water our first five days." There was a chorus of dissent. "Come off it," said a hostage, "it was better than that." The main complaint: their captors continually woke them up at ungodly hours to discuss the situation...