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...March 27, 1974, Channel 12 sports reporter Jimmy Jones broke into the Fred's follies to inform his juvenile audience that the Portland Trail Blazers had won the coin toss with the Philadelphia '76ers and would receive the first pick in the 1974 National Basketball Association draft...
...will likely be a typical Celtics game, but this will mark the first time that Walton--who had always played with winners until he left Portland for San Diego in 1979--will face Blazers while on a winning team...
Atlanta 109, Portland...
Apparently tipped off that immigration charges against him had been secretly handed up by a federal grand jury in Portland, the Bhagwan departed forthwith from Rajneeshpuram. The guru and six disciples chartered two Learjets and took off so quickly that their pilots had to obtain final clearances while aloft. As the Bhagwan's retinue tried to arrange a flight to Bermuda, Federal Aviation Administration controllers tracked the planes. When Rajneesh's touched down at 2 a.m. at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, authorities arrested...
Although the sect leader was accused of immigration-law violations, INS Agent Joseph Green testified in Charlotte that the guru's followers were plotting to kill the U.S. Attorney in Portland and the Oregon attorney general if the Bhagwan was imprisoned. A week earlier, an Oregon grand jury filed attempted murder charges against Ma Anand Sheela, 35, the Bhagwan's former secretary. She had fled the commune in September, prompting accusations from Rajneesh that she had conspired to murder his physician. Sheela was arrested last week in West Germany. In addition to the attempted murder indictment, she too has been...