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...leaders of the five countries felt that the presence of the Contras during the election might spark a crack-down by the Nicaraguan government and military...
Later in the week the President took the extraordinary step of announcing his resignation as party leader, a position he has held since 1981, when he took power largely to crack down on Solidarity. Jaruzelski also withdrew from the Politburo and the Central Committee, reportedly so that he can concentrate all his energy on the presidency...
...MACHINE: TIN MACHINE (EMI). It's David Bowie, lying low with a new band that he helped create and whose rough edges he hones to a good cutting edge. Lots of fever-blister guitar work and apocalyptic Bowie lyrics. Crack City ought to be a sci-fi hallucination, but Bowie knows better: he makes it into an everyday nightmare...
...Boston is taking a cue from Washington and New York City, which have been confiscating crack houses and drug dens for about two years, said James B. Roche, the U.S. Marshal for Massachusetts...
...investigators determined that it would take KGB safecrackers one to four hours to crack each lock inside the code room. Opening the CIA vault would trigger another set of sensors that would ring at the Marine post. It would also be recorded by a device that counted the number of times the door was opened and closed. This counter was displayed inside a tamperproof box: if a KGB spy tried to open it and change the number, he would destroy certain indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate...