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Other speculation on Laxalt's withdrawal focuses on his $250 million libel suit against the Sacramento Bee and two sister newspapers. A 1983 Bee article alleged that nearly $2 million was skimmed from the Ormsby House, a casino- hotel Laxalt established in Carson City after his gubernatorial term ended in 1971. Laxalt denies that the suit has any bearing on his announcement, but the case is moving toward trial, and the newspaper, in support of its case, has amassed boxes of potentially embarrassing notes and documents...
...California, natives of the Indian state of Gujarat, where millions of people bear the family name Patel, operate inexpensive motels from San Diego to the Oregon border. The first Patel was Nanlal, who with a partner bought the old Ford Hotel in Sacramento during World War II. Scores of Patels followed. Naranji Patel, 45, owner of the Sands and Park View lodgings in San Jose, estimates that up to 80% of the state's 1,500 independently run motels with fewer than 25 rooms are in Indian hands. Most lodgings were purchased from small operators who wanted to quit...
Authorities say Whitworth was the man who last year posted three letters in Sacramento to the FBI. Two offered information about "a significant espionage system" in return for "complete immunity" from prosecution. The third letter indicated that the man, who signed the letters only "RUS, Somewhere, USA," had changed his mind about becoming an informant. Asked why the FBI had not followed up on the first two letters, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in San Francisco explained: "Not knowing who you're dealing with, whether it's Jack the Ripper or the greatest master spy since Mata Hari, an offer...
...hours of flying time. It began to dawn on Lewis that he might have taken a slight detour. Some 13,000 miles later, after spending twelve hours in New Zealand's largest city, he arrived back in Los Angeles. Lewis, an ingenuous though perhaps a bit flighty student at Sacramento City College, is having his moment in the media sun. He has appeared on the Tonight show ("Auckland is a really nice city," he told Johnny, describing his bus tour), and two major networks are said to be vying for the rights to his accidental odyssey...
...relationship with her child. Bunge tells students, "You are a resource person like an accountant or an attorney. You have to present your information in a subtle way." Yet most schools teach some assertiveness training. "Families tend to overburden nannies," says Larry Uno, of the California Nannie College in Sacramento. "We teach them...