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...last week when David W. Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat to set a fire in the Bull Run watershed, which provides water for the city of Portland, and a $1 million ransom demand...
...negotiated with the FBI by quacking out his instructions on a duck caller over a citizens' band radio frequency in Morse-like code. It was the radio that finally did him in. An FBI agent monitoring the channel traced the signal to a 1968 Plymouth passing through southeast Portland and arrested Heesch and his wife Sheila...
...toppling two BPA towers near Brightwood, Ore., and using the U.S. mail to extort money. He faces 22 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. Sheila Heesch also pleaded guilty of being an accomplice to the dynamiting of two other towers near Maupin, 145 miles southeast of Portland, and to one count of extortion in the blackmail attempt...
...Johnson. There were rallies, conferences, television appearances. He foxtrotted at the Urban League dance, he went to a basketball game. He sold his cuff links for charity, hiked a football through the presidential legs and ended that 18-hour day at a party for his official photographer in Portland...
Maybe he milked a few extra votes for Jake Garn in Utah, pulling him into the Senate. It could be that the big black woman he swung round the dance floor in Portland translated the warm glow into some kind of G.O.P. vote. He might have picked up a jock or two in Portland's Coliseum. Then again he might have lost a million times that many ballots for the Grand Old Party by reminding people that he gave the pardon to Richard Nixon, by airlifting the presidential extravaganza all over the country while sugar...