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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the Empire State last week. As the result of a wide-ranging FBI sting operation, 44 current and former municipal officials and twelve private contractors were charged with accepting bribes and graft in 40 towns from Great Neck on Long Island to Malone near the Canadian border. Ten officials in New Jersey were also indicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Rotten Apples Upstate Too | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

According to U.S. officials, Aspillaga walked off his job as Cuba's intelligence chief in Prague on June 6, drove an embassy car across the border to Austria, and introduced himself to U.S. diplomats in Vienna. His crossover came just nine days after the defection of another high-ranking Cuban official, Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz, who has also been heard on Radio Marti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilled Beans: A defector bares Cuban secrets | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi suffered the worst defeat of his 18-year rule of Libya five months ago when his troops were driven out of northern Chad. Last week Chadian President Hissene Habre sought to double the Libyans' humiliation by sending his army to capture the Aouzou Strip, a disputed border region. Though the foray did not produce the "total defeat" of Libyan forces claimed by Chad, it resulted in the fall of the town of Aouzou, the strip's administrative center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: Libya Suffers Another Hit | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...more than business as usual last week at the German border crossing point of Herleshausen when the gold-colored Mercedes-Benz and the red Audi parked within walking distance of the checkpoint. The mission: the exchange of convicted spies by East and West Germany. The swap was thought to be an attempt to create goodwill before East German Leader Erich Honecker visits Bonn next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Feet Across The Border | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...pounding of storms, as well as the rise and fall of ocean levels, have changed coastlines dramatically. "Sandy beaches are dynamic. They are meant to erode," says Richard Delaney, chairman of the Coastal States Organization, a group that advocates better coastal management in 30 states (including those that border the Great Lakes) and five territories. The problem, however, is Americans' passion for living and vacationing at the seashore. That has led to a boom in the development of U.S. coastal areas since World War II. "When you ; put a permanent structure onto a piece of land that is by nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shrinking Shores | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

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