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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...covers the one behind, trying to prevent it from escaping the blockage of its breeze. In a blustery 26-knot wind, Stars & Stripes did not risk losing that contest and barreled straight ahead to win by 1:20. The second meeting was a replay of the first: Stars & Stripes blew ahead on a gusty breeze to a 1:36 victory. But Dennis-no- longer-the-Menace did not crow. "I've been ahead two-zip before," he said, referring to his lead in Newport prior to disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dragster in The Danger Zone | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...recent day, as cold winds whistled across the jackrabbit badlands and swirled outside his cramped office, Nettleton kindled yet another cigarette, propped his scuffed cowboy boots on the desk and pondered the renegade Dallas, who's been on the loose since a jailbreak last Easter Sunday. Abruptly he blew out the match and turned, a flinty glare transforming his hound-dog eyes. The sheriff wanted Dallas, dead or alive. "If they'd bring one of his hands back from Mexico, I'd be happy, I guess," drawled the lean and lanky lawman. "I just wanta know something's been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Then, out of nowhere, thick black clouds and the crack of two or three explosions. "A ball of fire came through," said Croupier Susano Gonzalez Perez. "It blew open the door. People were trampled." Some raced toward the picture windows, grabbed chairs and hurled them through the thick plate glass, then jumped 30 ft. to the ground. Bathers near the pool where other survivors landed fled from the spray of shards. Many huddling near the casino's closed door, apparently unable to pry it open, died of smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year We'll Never Forget | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Director Koshalek philosophically. Then last November word leaked out that Count Panza's fellow trustees had discussed selling some of the works to raise the next $2 million installment. This too would have been legal -- there was no agreement to keep the collection intact -- but when the indignant count blew the story to the press, MOCA was seen as a museum that could sell part of its collection to pay for the rest before it had even opened. Such gestures make potential donors wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Getting On the Map | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...contras are unlikely to "liberate" any Nicaraguan territory. Administration realists foresee at best a long campaign of guerrilla harassment; they warn that the contras' ability to continue the fight depends on their retaining sanctuaries in an increasingly nervous Honduras. Says an American diplomat: "Since the Iran business blew up, we have felt a definite increase in the Hondurans' eagerness to see the contras somewhere else -- either in Managua running the country or in New York and Los Angeles waiting on tables, but out of Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Battles | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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