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...first attack was swift -- and expected. After days of blatant preparations, at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, two AC-130H Spectre gunships and American Cobra attack helicopters thundered over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the next several hours, flares and tracer bullets lit the predawn skies of the Somali capital as the aircraft pummeled six sites of strategic importance to the country's paramount warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. U.S. forces hit Aidid's radio station, four weapons and ammunitions dumps, and an abandoned cigarette factory that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterpunch | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

Most public defenders think not. In Memphis, lawyers lament the plead-'em- and-speed-'em-through pace. "It reminds me of the old country song we have here in Tennessee: 'We're not making love, we're just keeping score,' " says chief public defender AC Wharton. Across the country, lawyers watch with frustration as the bulk of criminal-justice funds goes to police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of the Public Defender | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...pair eventually got Goldberg to sing a few lines from one of her songs in the motion picture "Sister Act." Cheering from the crowd, however, drowned out much of the ac- tress's "performance...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Goldberg Wins 'Pot' | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...rebate plunge comes as Murphy tries to make the store more ac- cessible to customers in an attempt to attractnew business...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coop Rebate Plunges To Record Low of 1.1% | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...should be, unless the Crimson can't find its fire. In that case, even AC-Delco sparkplugs won't be able to help...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Massachusetts Upends W. Booters, 2-0, in Bay State Grudge March | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

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