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...outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched formal protests in Washington and Moscow last week did the Soviets become cooperative in releasing the Americans and their ship. Captain Tabb Thorns and his crew of four were finally put aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman during a prearranged rendezvous in international waters. The episode underscored the propensity of the Soviets to overreact to even the most innocent intrusion into their territory...
Roanoke Sound lay beyond the stage; water lapped at the set. Lightning bugs not yet mature enough to illuminate danced on a northeast breeze. The smell of Cutter's lay heavy upon the air. Now and again someone would thwack a thigh and a mosquito would perish. Periodically, Layton would clap his hands three times sharply and stop the work: "People, make it your own-even though I am giving you all this picky stuff...
...during fiscal year 1981 had been so poorly maintained that cars and trucks brought only 58% of their true value, boats 43% and aircraft 35%. (Drugs are burned.) Confiscated businesses have presented a particular problem. Consider the strange case of Rex Cauble, millionaire rancher, owner of the wildly successful Cutter Bill western-wear stores and kingpin of the "Texas Mafia," who smuggled tons of marijuana into the Lone Star State during the late 1970s. Cauble's corporate empire was so complex that agents felt he was the only person who could manage it efficiently. So while...
Helicopters, cars and computers dominate such action-adventure shows, as Magnum, P.I., Matt Houston, Trauma Center, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Cutter to Houston and The Fall Guy. Coptermania is the current craze. The air waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter...
Legal woes dog a budget cutter...