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...Your heart breaks for these folks," said Governor Pete Wilson after touring some of the hardest-hit areas. Earlier, when the rains began to fall on Sacramento, the Governor had been making his second-term inaugural speech. He had spoken of the grit and tenacity with which Californians had overcome one destructive force after another. The venue for the gubernatorial address had been changed from outdoors to indoors because of the weather; meanwhile the true deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity...
MANY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS are convinced that they have a novel in them if only their damned editors and creditors would give them the time to write it. Pete Dexter, 51, is one of the happy few journalists who have lived up to this belief. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, he moonlighted God's Pocket (1984), a gritty story set in that city's seamier neighborhoods, which earned an unusual amount of attention for a first novel. Three others followed, including Paris Trout (1989), which won the National Book Award...
...rains eased briefly today in California, but another big storm building off-shore is expected to hit the state this weekend. Over the past nine days, more than 16 inches of rain have fallen in California, causing massive flooding and mudslides that have closed highways and dissolved property. Governor Pete Wilson added ten more counties this morning to the previous 24 listed as state disaster areas. President Clinton, who plans to visit the state early next week, has offered federal assistance to the counties suffering the heaviest damage...
...Pete Stoyanovich's kick sailed wide right on Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Miami's hopes and dreams of a Superbowl victory were dashed...
...September, responding in part to the fact that some witnesses in the Simpson case sold their accounts to the Enquirer before testifying in court, California Governor Pete Wilson signed three new laws that went into effect Jan. 1, penalizing witnesses or jurors who sell information about a pending case. And last month, after a bit of the Enquirer's tabloid color seeped into the gray pages of the New York Times, the furor was sufficient to occupy O.J. watchers until the DNA hearings begin this week...