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...American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high-tech complex. Its economic output, according to Economist James Doti, is expected to reach...
...scarce and prices are generally high: the average for a three-bedroom tract house in Newport Beach is $300,000. Traffic is approaching the nightmare stage. The 405 Freeway through Irvine often looks like a parking lot. Worse, a hint of L.A. -- smog -- sometimes hangs over the Santa Ana Mountains...
Even the mastermind recalled it as "Black Sunday." Everything went wrong. The glut of visitors turned the Santa Ana Freeway into a seven-mile parking lot. Refreshment stands ran out of food and drink for the nearly 30,000 invited guests and thousands more ticket counterfeiters who stormed the gates. Rides broke down almost immediately. A gas leak forced the shuttering of Fantasyland. The day's corrosive heat sent women's spiked heels sinking into the asphalt on Main Street. Nor was this a debacle to be covered over with Tinker Bell dust; the whole sorry spectacle was broadcast...
...Lauro hijacking in October, the ADC's West Coast director Alex Odeh, 41, was fatally wounded after he appeared on Cable News Network saying it was time for Americans to "understand the Palestinian side of the story." When he opened the door to the organization's office in Santa Ana, Calif., the following morning, he triggered an explosion that killed...
...family gathered in the private chapel in the Salvadoran President's home. There they took part in a Mass of thanksgiving for the safe return of Duarte's oldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, who was released 44 days after antigovernment guerrillas kidnaped her and a friend, Ana Cecilia Villeda, 23. But the joy of the long- awaited homecoming was muted by signs that a total recovery from the kidnaping incident will be a difficult process for the Duartes and the country...