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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah, [Joe] Policastro blitzed single coverage. No big route. You saw the route. [Santiago] went down the field like he was warming up before the game. [Policastro] blew it. Selfish assignment on his part...Nobody gave a crap. Can't do that now. Can't do that...The punting killed us. Absolutely killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview With Chairman Garrett | 9/24/1985 | See Source »

...founder, Robert Jay Mathews, 31, died last December. Holed up in a waterfront house on Whidbey Island in Washington State, Mathews fired some 1,000 rounds of ammunition at an army of federal and local police who were trying to arrest him. The fusillade ended when an illumination flare blew up a cache of ammo, the house--and Mathews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Order in Court | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...Macheteros, a Puerto Rican terrorist group, were brought to the U.S. District Court in Hartford last week on charges of robbing $7 million from a Connecticut Wells Fargo depot in 1983. The precaution was prompted by the violent history of the group. In Puerto Rico, the Macheteros (machete wielders) blew up nine aircraft in 1981, and authorities say they staged a 1979 attack on a U.S. Navy bus that killed two sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hartford: Blunted Machetes | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...days later that threat became reality when two car bombs blew up in predominantly Muslim West Beirut. The next day the explosion of a small stick of dynamite tossed from a passing car lured curious people into Saddun Square in the northern port of Tripoli. The dynamite charge was deadly bait; a booby- trapped car in the square exploded, killing 45 and wounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East a Vengeful Frenzy of Death | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...blow our cover and unveil the real reason we're interested in South Africa--a cheaper labor supply than we'll ever find in this grape-infested country. The best thing we can do is wait it out. Remember what that U.S. State Department official said: "Sharpville blew over, and Soweto blew over, and even though this is worse, there's nowhere it can really...

Author: By Charles C. Matthew, | Title: Hello Francois, It's Me, P.W. | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

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