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That region became a death trap last week for two U.S. journalists, Los Angeles Times Correspondent Dial Torgerson, 55, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33 (see PRESS). The two Americans were driving along a road near Cifuentes, a short distance inside Honduras, when their car was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a position on the Nicaraguan side of the border, killing the two men instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Death Along the Border | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33, on assignment for U.S. News & World Report, to their deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Treacherous Lure of a Story | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...help, simply dial 800-COCAINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strung Out and Calling It Quits | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...became a matter of smothering the goddess of the moment with an incestuous sort of fatherly attention, and of laboring to control every detail of her life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. By 1962, when he filmed The Birds, he was treating Actress Tippi Hedren as a doll to dress, cosset and terrorize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitchcock on the Half Shell | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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