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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutton chops. For years U.S. sheepmen have trapped them, shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...
...ammunition that was used at another pawn shop, this one in Lubbock, Texas. The type of bullet he chose was interesting-and frightening. The cartridges were Devastators, made by Bingham Ltd. of Norcross, Ga. These projectiles, akin to dumdum bullets, contain a small aluminum canister filled with an explosive compound. They cost at least twelve times as much as ordinary .22-cal. slugs...
Upon impact the unstable compound is supposed to explode and fragment the bullet, although most of the ones that Hinckley shot, including the one that hit Reagan, failed to do so. Bingham spokesmen say that the Devastator was developed for use by sky marshals in hijacking cases. By fragmenting, the bullet would quickly incapacitate a person but would be less likely than an ordinary bullet to pass through him or to puncture the outer skin of an airplane. Because of manufacturing difficulties, the company stopped producing the Devastator last...
...Government, Allen became a consultant for various businesses overseas, a career that was almost ended when he crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza while landing, suffering five compound fractures in his lower body. As a result he has a loping gait that gives the look of an energetic sea captain walking the deck in unsettled waters. That appearance was appropriate for the troubles that confronted him in his profitable enterprises. There were constant rumors that he had benefited unduly from his connections with the Nixon White House. A damaging exposé in the Wall Street Journal a few days before...
...Supreme Employer. In 1945, eight years after consular officials had fled Japanese invaders, an American vice consul popped down from Shanghai and ordered Zhao to keep at it. So each workday since-through Communist takeover and every twist of revolutionary rancor-Zhao Wenjin has puttered about the compound, now an oceanographic institute, and every month he has collected, via the British, his $61 paycheck. Just after Zhao was rediscovered by his absentee bosses, he had a question. "When you see the Americans in Peking," Zhao said, "ask them if it's possible, since I've been working here...