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DIED. ALLEN DRURY, 80, former Washington reporter who turned political insight into fictional intrigue when he wrote the 1960 Pulitzer prizewinning novel Advise and Consent; in Tiburon, Calif. The best-selling book drew on Drury's years as a New York Times correspondent and portrayed the machinations surrounding the nomination of a new Secretary of State. He published 18 more novels, most pertaining to the inner workings of the capital...
...Bill Clinton wins the election in November, and Pravda prints a major story on how a bunch of Russians sitting in a hotel room in Washington drank vodka and guided his campaign. These musketeers are then credited with achieving Clinton's victory. Unthinkable, isn't it? HANS G. ROENAU Tiburon, California...
Blades' polemically charged tunes occasionally inspired more than just dancing. In 1980 Tiburon (Shark), an allegory for superpower interventionism, was banned by Miami radio stations, and Blades had to wear a bulletproof vest while performing there. Decisiones (Decisions), from his 1984 album Buscando America (Searching for America), was banned by Panama's censors for allegedly promoting abortion...
...held Camacho and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint on a forced six-hour auto drive the previous Friday, and he seemed particularly bitter toward the boss who fired him: Raymond Thomson, 48, the USAir customer-service manager in Los Angeles. Thomson commuted regularly by air from his Tiburon home in San Francisco...
...arguments on whether Buck's bucks can be spread more widely around the San Francisco Bay area. Plaintiffs include 28 social service agencies and the trust's own executor, the San Francisco Foundation, which has been criticized for funding such questionable projects as a bicycle path in well-heeled Tiburon. Opposing any change is the Marin council of service groups, which evidently wants charity not only to begin at home but stay there...