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...first campaign dominated by television, the infirmities of Jorge Blanco's two principal rivals, Right-Winger Joaquin Balaguer, 75, and Socialist Writer-Politician Juan Bosch, 73, both former Presidents, were all too apparent. Even so, the two combative oldsters won a total of 48.7% of the vote to Jorge Blanco...
Californians still have vivid memories of what Fain did one night in June 1967. Driving along a country road in the San Joaquin Valley, he flashed his headlights at the car in front of him until it pulled over. When the other driver, Mark Ulrich, 17, got out, Fain killed him with a shotgun, then raped his two young women companions. Convicted of those crimes and a third rape, Fain drew a life sentence. When word of his impending parole reached Ulrich's family and friends, they formed the Keep Fain In Committee. A petition contending that Fain...
...Despite stepped-up chemical warfare, the epidemic of Mediterranean fruit flies showed no signs of waning. The creatures spread beyond the populated suburbs south of San Francisco and approached the very heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year agricultural industry, the fertile 12,000-sq.-mi. San Joaquin Valley. Repercussions were quick and far-reaching. Even as helicopters doused the lush fields and orchards with pesticide, word came from Japan, California's largest overseas agricultural customer (more than $100 million in purchases last year), that it would no longer buy any fruit or vegetables-more than...
...counties under quarantine. Roadblocks were set up and officials confiscated fruit from vehicles leaving the area. Still, Brown stubbornly refused to permit aerial spraying-until the Reagan Administration finally threatened to embargo all California produce. By then, it may have been too late. Two weeks ago, on what San Joaquin farmers now call Black Friday, a fertile female Medfly was discovered in a trap placed in an apricot orchard owned by Gene Bays, a third-generation California grower in the small town of Westley (pop. 800), near the western edge of the rich farm lands...
...crop-dusting biplanes, that released clouds of Diphos, a more powerful pesticide. Next day the number of trapped flies dropped sharply. But farm officials recognized the difficulty of eliminating an insect that can produce 500 or more offspring in a month-long lifetime. In Modesto, not far from San Joaquin's lush fields, where tomato, peach and melon crops are now ripening, one had this to say about the tiny foe: "It's probably some place out there already and we just don't know...