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Meanwhile, the FBI was evaluating new leads that might link Patty to other crimes. The fresh evidence was found in the San Francisco apartment occupied by Patty and Wendy Yoshimura, 32, a traveling companion, when they were seized. Another mother lode of material was discovered in the dwelling of William and Emily Harris, members of the S.L.A. who had traveled with Patty. FBI laboratories are examining firearms, ammunition, explosives, documents, telephone numbers, addresses, notes scrawled on scraps of paper and radical literature retrieved from the two apartments. "The stack of stuff is four feet high," reports one agent. "Checking...
...together, Alaska's proven oil reserves constitute about a third of the entire known U.S. supply. As the U.S. tries to decrease its dependence upon foreign sources for its energy, the pressure will surely increase to tap more of Alaska's lode of black gold in areas like the Cook Inlet and offshore in the Bering Strait. By 1985, the state could be furnishing 25% of the nation's oil. Alaska also has an estimated 420 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas, a supply worth approximately $420 billion and large enough to handle all U.S. needs...
...history: 60 cases of 25-year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode in the attic of an abandoned railroad station; sure enough, he uncovered thousands of different pre-World War II makes and became overnight the J. Paul Getty of candom...
...told, the attic lode panned out to more than $5 million, of which about $1 million worth will be turned over to Sotheby Parke Bernet for auction. That will enable the sponsors of Operation Auntie Fannie to benefit too. The auction house's average commission...
Painstakingly acquired over 20 months and neatly catalogued, the lode of evidence mined by the Watergate special prosecutor could save the House Judiciary Committee months of work in its impeachment inquiry. Yet the committee has been slow to go into court to seek the material from Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. It finally began to move to get it last week, even as its staff continued weighing the various options in a complex legal situation...