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...worth "taking a few risks" for peace. The Labor Prime Minister said he would tell Adams: "If you return to violence there will be no place for you at the negotiation table." No word on whether the Sinn Fein leader was asked to walk through a metal detector, just to be on the safe side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Adams Goes to Downing Street | 12/11/1997 | See Source »

...profitable to plant mines, imagine how much these firms can make in the demining business. Indeed, that seems to be the aim of a number of companies who traveled to Ottawa to hawk their wares to treaty delegates. Bargains included the $500,000 remote-control mine detector, the supersonic air shovel and the Superman mine-awareness comic book. No word on what the hundreds of land-mine victims, observing the treaty signing on crutches and in wheelchairs, thought of such a commercial display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land Mines: Still Booming | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

UniLu is safer than other shelters in the area, Wayne added. Guests must register with the shelter before nights when they wish to stay. Upon arrival, they must empty their pockets and pass through a metal detector...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student-Run Shelter Provides Warm Comfort from the Cold | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...either pink and read EXAM in Magic Marker or was purple and tagged COLLECTION. Then, despite the fact that the place was crawling with agents, you were directed to wait your turn in a row of empty chairs. When your name was called, you were passed through a metal detector and ferried upstairs to an undecorated 6-by-6 cubicle. There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE WORK FOR YOU! | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...suggesting countless scenarios and motives. An I.R.A. operative was gunned down shortly after bragging to an ex-FBI agent that he had information on a major art theft. A former museum employee had abruptly left his job, didn't pick up his last check and flunked a lie-detector test. Falzon and other agents chased dead-end leads like those around the world, including one to Japan, where a painting, purported to be the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, turned out to be a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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