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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After last week's attack, American service personnel were advised not to wear their uniforms off post or to get into potentially dangerous situations. Navy personnel are now traveling in small vans that have police-car escorts. Riding shotgun in the vans are Marines that the Pentagon flew to Puerto Rico after the bus ambush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...York the people stare back at you. Two police cars grumble, drowning out the Salvation Army bells that ring across town and sit waiting, grazing on the sidewalk, spinning their disco lights. Their red lights reflect from the lenses of a lawyer's glasses as he walks from his car toward the block where the limousines are parked. The rumble of the police cars echoes off the brick of a church. The lawyer glances left and crosses against the Don't Walk sign at 11th Avenue. Several blocks later he edges toward the curb when a girl's face whispers...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: At Loose Ends? Get Out | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

Bernie De Koven, 38, is the game designer for Ideal Toys, makers of last year's big-selling Electronic Detective-similar to Stop Thief, this year's Parker Bros, entry. His office is cluttered-a creative mulch of dolls' heads, car wheels, batteries, record-player motors, computer entrails, synthesizers and oscilloscopes-but he knows where the action is. "Try an experiment," says De Koven. "Bring in 30 of your most beautiful mechanical games and two cruddy electronic games to a group of kids, and see what happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Rivkin said the Harvard Police arrested one man in the small courtyard who stayed with the stranded car...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Men Drive Volkswagen Into Lowell Courtyard; University Police Subdue and Arrest One Man | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Mary Lee Bossert said the car was towed out of the courtyard last night...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Men Drive Volkswagen Into Lowell Courtyard; University Police Subdue and Arrest One Man | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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