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...lakes and streams. Some 100 miles north of San Francisco, hundreds of people fled their homes as the 30-mile-long Clearlake overflowed. During the past two weeks, flooding throughout the state has forced 7,000 Californians to evacuate their homes and has left at least 14 dead. Gov. Pete Wilson expanded his request for federal disaster funding today, seeking to make 48 of 56 California counties eligible for government relief. The state has estimated $303 million in livestock and agricultural losses so far as a result of the floods. Forecasters are predicting another storm for the Northern California this...
Pestilence, quakes and freeze ... Please, no more catastrophes! --Duet by Pete and Gayle Wilson...
...Governor Pete Wilson and his wife Gayle, who performed the musical number at their inaugural gala in a Sacramento sports palace last month, not surprisingly brought down the house. But the striking thing was not that this most buttoned-up of Governors should let his hair down. It was the realization that just a year ago, any such whoop-de-do would have been unheard of: California's woes were nothing to make fun of. The state was still dazed by natural calamities and demoralized by an eco-nomic slump. Since last summer, though, the surfing state has been riding...
...handicap but as a winning card that could attract Democratic voters in the general election. If Republicans do decide that Wilson is their man, he would have an ideal location for his coronation. The Republican Convention is scheduled for July 1996 in San Diego, the true capital of Pete Wilson country...
...potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser who is being wooed heavily by both Dole and California Governor Pete Wilson...