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...place. TIME Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler first visited the installation last September. Back then, U.S. military officers stationed at the base gave free rein to visiting journalists and photographers. Now, reports Stoler, "the approach to the U.S. part of the base is guarded by large pieces of concrete sewer conduit, placed on the approach road to form an obstacle course for trucks that might be loaded with dynamite. The new public affairs officer seems dismayed that a reporter will ask him questions about the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, a 300-man outfit that came here a month ago from Hunter...
...include an island just offshore, into the hands of people who will restore the serenity of the past amid all the motels and waffle houses. This emphatically does not include Frank Matteo, a flashy young restaurateur with Mafia connections whom Arnie suspects (rightly) of seeking his island as a conduit for foreign narcotics. Matteo is both more and less than a customer, however. To a reformer like Arnie he is an irresistible candidate for moral redemption, and the way to reach him appears to be through his castoff, pregnant girlfriend, who has taken refuge under Arnie's mostly paternal...
...feeling that everything had peaked, maybe even played itself out. Punk and new wave had created much press excitement, but never really broke through to a wide audience. Radio was hidebound by tightly formatted playlists: same sounds, same rhythms, in the same familiar rotations. Radio was the time-honored conduit to keep the music flowing, but it was becoming antiquated...
...heart. This is done by taking a segment of a blood vessel, usually from the leg, and grafting it into the chest, where it is used to create a detour around the obstruction. For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, the heart's principal conduit, a bypass offers the best hope of prolonging life. The procedure is also the treatment of choice for those with crippling pain due to several clogged coronary arteries...
...Israel continues to sell weapons to countries such as South Africa which the U.S. supports but will not arm directly. The United States, for its part, sustains the Israeli arms industry with its military aid. And the American government certainly is not averse to using Israel as a conduit to South Africa...