Word: northwest
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Disaster Areas. Last week the Salt Lake City River Forecast Center reported that the water-supply outlook for Nevada, Arizona, Utah, eastern Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming is "gloomy to grim." In the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest the outlook is "bleak and becoming bleaker." In parched California the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply...
BRITISH COLUMBIA--"A big, furry foul-smelling creature" emerged from the woods and surprised a group of Canadians about 35 miles east of Vancouver Sunday, and many people in the area are convinced it was "Bigfoot," the legendary apelike creature who supposedly lives in the Pacific Northwest...
...district court, meanwhile, former CIA Supply Officer Edwin Moore went on trial for allegedly trying to sell classified documents to the Soviet Union (TIME, Jan. 3). Moore was apprehended last December after tossing a fat manila envelope into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's residence in northwest Washington. Thinking that the packet might be a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said...
...forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North Sea, Phillips Petroleum was ready to quit after four failed wells. The fifth, sunk at the insistence of the Norwegian...
...nearly made it. McKenzie managed to put his crippled jet down on Georgia's Route 92, near New Hope, 35 miles northwest of Atlanta. But the careening airliner slammed into a grocery store and there was a flash of flame. Says Marie Clayton, wife of New Hope's fire chief: "We actually saw bodies going through the air." Of the 85 passengers and crew members aboard the flight, 62 died, including McKenzie. Eight people on the ground were also killed...