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...earthquake of April 1906, which killed more than 700 people, another tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area last week. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, vs. an estimated 8.3 for the '06 temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area in the past decade...
...Last week it was announced that two of the President's closest California confidants would soon take their leave: Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver wants to bolster his bank account, and Interior Secretary William Clark plans to ride back to his 880-acre ranch near San Luis Obispo. Two others in the California contingent are also poised to shift. After a bruising inquiry into his finances, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was renominated last week to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, thus bringing Smith closer to his goal of returning to private law practice...
...clear, as a Wings West commuter plane carrying 15 people took off from the San Luis Obispo airport for San Francisco, some 200 miles to the north. Meanwhile, a flight instructor and his student were flying near by in a single-engine plane. The aircrafts met without warning at 3,000 ft. The flaming wreckage plummeted to the ground, killing all 17 aboard...
...Luis Obispo airport is considered too small to have a control tower, so no one was in charge of guiding the traffic. Aircraft taking off and landing are supposed to use the same radio frequency so that they will be aware of other planes in the area. In 1979 five people were killed when a plane crashed on a ridge near by, and a year later there were two near-misses in the air. Still, the Federal Aviation Administration has turned down San Luis Obispo's requests for a tower. "Since the air controllers' strike...
...looked like an old-fashioned college protest right out of the '60s. This demonstration, however, had a contemporary twist: more than 100 angry students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo had marched into the president's office to demand a chance to buy Apple's Macintosh computer at a discount. The California manufacturer had been offering selected colleges its new machine, which retails for $2,495, for resale to students at a price of just over $1,000. Two dozen universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, accepted Apple's terms, ordering more than...