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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS under the guns of the apartheid regime would be glad to hear that apartheid agent Abe S Hoppers was met last week by the righteous indignation of Harvard protesters...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Much of the information leading to the arrests came from Kevin Bonner, an intrepid FBI agent who went undercover for more than two years, infiltrating the motorcycle gang and crisscrossing the country to do drug deals with different Hell's Angels chapters. Bonner and an unnamed informant who traveled with him also unearthed leads on alleged bribery, extortion, contract murders and the harboring of fugitives by gang members. FBI Director William Webster claimed that the operation "averted five potential murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busting Hell's Angels | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...embraced business-school techniques to run their operations, using computers to manage administrative and financial matters and imposing strict accountability on drug dealers. Each chapter of the Angels contributes profits from its deals to a national treasury. "Motorcycle gangs have come a long way in recent years," said FBI Agent James Greenleaf. "They are much more sophisticated than most people in society would expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busting Hell's Angels | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...million in sophisticated radar equipment similar to that carried by AWACS planes. Though the balloons have been known to come unleashed (one wanderer had to be shot down in 1981), airborne radar is still more efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close to the ground. When Fat Albert or one of his big buddies sights a suspicious flight, Customs officials send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye in the Sky | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...testify in the Manila courtroom where the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Fabian Ver, 24 other soldiers and one civilian are being tried for Aquino's murder. The 26 are also accused of the murder of Rolando Galman, who was identified by the military as a Communist agent and Aquino's killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines What the Crying Lady Saw | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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