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...Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...
...Kennedy's emphasis on New York as the first major test in a large Northern industrial state is a slight to the people of Illinois. But it may be smart politics. Carter lost New York the last time around, placing an embarrassing fourth behind Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), and sundry uncommitteds. Once through Illinois and New York, campaign officials are sketchy on strategy...
...Aloofness clearly didn't wash in Iowa and Reagan's managers have shifted tactics in New Hampshire.) They added more campaign stops to the Granite State schedule. But for Reagan promoters, exposure is as dangerous as isolation. The public blunders four years ago attest to that--on Rhodesia, Reagan proclaimed in 1976 that the United States should send in the troops. Or, digging back still earlier, in November 1966, when he told conservative Human Events that 'Social Security ought to be voluntary." A year earlier in the Washington Star, he offered this analysis of Earl Warren's abilities: "I think...
Then last week eight-year-old Brian Ingram dug a dozen packets of weathered $20 bills from a bank of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash. The FBI determined from the serial numbers that the $4,000 was part of Cooper's loot. Using picks and shovels, agents unearthed fragments of several more bills, some buried 3 ft. deep. FBI officials speculate that the money and Cooper landed somewhere upstream and that floods washed the bills to their final resting place. Said FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been investigating the hijacking for more than eight years: "The money...
...other action at the XIII Winter Olympics, Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden stormed back from fourth place in the men's slalom and captured his second gold medal. Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., who led after the first of two runs, took the silver half a second behind. Jacques Luethy of Switzerland finished third...