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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Trooper Robert Cieplensky, the motorist at a rest area along the New Jersey Turnpike acted strangely. He circled his car several times, peered under it and into several trash cans. Then, apparently sighting the police car, he sped recklessly away. The officer flashed his warning lights, and the driver stopped. Looking into the auto, Cieplensky spotted six canisters protruding from a nylon flight bag on the back seat. Some were labeled BLACK POWDER. The trooper was even more astonished at what he found on the floor: three high-power pipe bombs contained in red fire-extinguisher cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs In New Jersey and Naples | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...their show that they either create during the 48 hours before the performance or improvise onstage, as when Din Junhee Lee offered the first stuff. While holding a can of WD-40 motor oil up to the audience, Lee asked front-row fan Karen Kasch if she had a car. She said no. Lee said, "That's perfect. It's yours...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...women, wearing black veils, were escorted to a car and taken to a hospital with their brother, who rode in an ambulance, a doctor said. The brother, the third member of the Kuwaiti royal family on the plane, was suffering from a nervous disorder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shiite Hijackers Free 31 Hostages | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...nation's only campus police allowed to carry guns. Harvard's force had better be among the most concerned in the country. Unfortunately, their reluctance to ensure student safety is matched only by Harvard's pitiful safety facilities--one unmarked escort car, no walking escort service, unguarded access to houses, and weak or broken Yard lights...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Sticking up for Night-Time Security | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal his car. "We are determined to take back the streets from thses hoodlums," declared Mayor Tom Bradley, a former police lieutenant. Those who choose to obey the law in Los Angeles' inner city can only hope that it is not too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bloody West Coast Story | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

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