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John Havlicek poured in 40 points and sparked the Boston Celtics to a 128-110 pasting of the Portland Trailblazers before 12,134 fans at Boston Garden last night...
Boston blitzed the Trailblazers at the outset of the second period, outscoring Portland 18-4, to burst to a 44-32 lead. The Celtics maintained their edge and held a 56-49 halftime margin and were never headed...
...White chipped in 21 points and Paul Westphal added 14. Wicks led Portland scorers with...
Alarmed BPA officials immediately ordered ground and helicopter surveillance of the more than 6,000 transmission towers that stand within a 50-mile radius of Portland. But the four states served by the Columbia River electro-grid contain some 62,500 towers, a fragile network that is impossible to protect completely. Once again an almost Mission: Impossible problem exposed the vulnerability to terrorism of complex industrial societies...
Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...