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Across the Pacific in California another rape case involved more judges than rapists. When a Sonoma County teen-ager allegedly forced a 16-year-old girl to make love to him on a park bench one spring night in 1978, he had no idea that his sexual initiative would eventually be weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the girl told her story to the police. The boy was officially charged with statutory rape for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. California is one of eleven states that still punish only the male in statutory rape cases. Accordingly...
Harvard's three freshmen from the People's Republic of China (PRC) constitute about one-tenth of the undergraduates from that country now studying in the United States. Other colleges with more than one PRC undergraduate include Sonoma State University of California (5), Georgetown University (4), The University of California at Riverside (4), Temple University (3), and SUNY Albany, according to rough figures kept by the Committee on Scholarly Communications with...
...systems, guard dogs, shotgun traps and even punji sticks, the sharpened stakes used by the Viet Cong to pierce the feet of patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion: "If you go walking in the hills during harvest time, you're asking to have your head blown...
...latest to join the California wine rush is Piper-Heidsieck. Two weeks ago, the French firm announced a $6 million ménage à trois with Renfield Importers and Sonoma Vineyards that will create a sparkling son of Heidsieck to be called Piper Sonoma. It will sell for $10-$12 a bottle, vs. $17 or more for the company's Continental bubbly...
DIED. August Sebastian!, 66, head of one of California's largest family-owned wineries; of cancer; in Sonoma, Calif. An informal patriarch who preferred the outdoors and overalls to office life, he took over the modest business founded by his Italian immigrant father in 1944 and greatly expanded production to include 24 wines ranging from "jug" types to premium varietals. When the U.S. wine industry started to boom in the '70s, other vinicultural pioneers began cashing in their holdings; not Sebastiani. Said he: "I would as soon sell my children as my vineyard...