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...transferred to a Palestine Liberation Organization commando unit known as the Special Operations Group. "The terrorism continued, just under a different name," says Vincent Cannistraro, who left the CIA this fall as head of analysis and operations for the agency's counterterrorist center. According to associate deputy FBI director Buck Revell, Rashid is a prime suspect in the 1986 P.L.O. bombing of a TWA flight to Athens that killed four Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Life and Crimes of a Middle East Terrorist | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...Brattle is one of a handful of revival movie houses remaining in the Boston area. Marianne Lampke, co-director of Running Arts, said that a number of other theaters had found it impossible to attract an audience, but added that she thought the Brattle would be able to buck the trend...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Brattle Reopens After Hiatus | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...quick-buck '80s, even staid mutual life insurance companies were lured by high-yield, high-risk investments. Now many are looking for sources of cash to buy their way out of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Spreading The Risk | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...shadow of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a buck with a velvet rack picks his way across a steep hillside, followed by three does. Hearing a noise, the deer turn toward a meadow filled with oak trees and sunflowers that glisten like gold coins. A band of backpacking Boy Scouts stare wide-eyed at this moment of natural theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cimarron, New Mexico Bears, Bucks And Boy Scouts | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Home Alone Breaks Away | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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