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Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already approved a bill to revive registration, Richard Cocker, press secretary for Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) said yesterday...
...1930s, they protected young people from working in cold and damp or dangerous mines. Today these same laws protect them from working in air-conditioned offices. If a 14-year-old is not benefiting from school, perhaps he should be allowed to leave and get work in a car wash. Perhaps then he will discover he cannot get ahead without an education, and that lesson in life will motivate him to return to school...
...time his lawyer began plea-bargaining last October, the hard evidence was there. Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a Bellingham, Wash., security guard was in deed the Hillside Strangler, responsible for the murder of ten young women in Los Angeles from September 1977 to February 1978 - as well as two later killings in Washington that resulted in his arrest...