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...daybreak, the remaining three were approached by a Harvard police officer who "wanted to see if we were from Harvard," Grossman said. "He said we could stay until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Frosh Spend Night in Yard | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...vague: check out a mansion 20 miles outside Medellin, the hub of the country's cocaine industry. At daybreak a 20-man elite police unit moved in. When the gunfight ended almost half an hour later, all 15 people inside the house were under arrest. But it was only when police demanded the papers of the captives that they realized they had cornered one of Colombia's most powerful and dangerous cocaine drug lords. Exclaimed Police Major William Lesmes: "We've caught him! This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered, "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: The Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...honor of downing the last few drops. It was an offer to share extended by those with nothing, and there was no time to think about the sores on the lips of the previous drinkers or the strange things floating in the bottle or the fact that it was daybreak and time for breakfast. It was better to drink and stay warm and forget about everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Looking for Mr. Palomar | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...Around daybreak Monday, Police Commissioner Sambor deployed 150 men, including sharpshooters, bomb specialists and SWAT teams. At 5:35 a.m., Sambor roared through a bullhorn that he held arrest warrants for occupants of the house: they were given 15 min. to come out. When the deadline passed with no response but scornful taunts, police lobbed tear-gas canisters at the building and the fire department battered the roof of the house with two water cannons. A burst of gunfire came from the house, touching off a return fusillade of thousands of rounds from police lasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Looks Just Like a War Zone | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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