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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime, saying that if it were not for her elderly mother she would prefer to leave. Although she lowered her voice when criticizing Castro, she apparently was not afraid to complain to a complete stranger who had wandered into her home accidently after seeing a CDR insignia on her door...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...barman - as much as $3,000 a week, he claimed. Mostly, McMullen said, he just strolled into gun shops, cash in hand, and bought whatever weapons he wanted, but on occasion the approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door of this busy nightclub, and up comes a guy with this great bloody carpet over his shoulder. He says he's got something to show me. So I tell him to get the hell out of the doorway and meet me in the basement. He unrolls the carpet and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tantalizing Tales from the I.R.A. | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...cold March morning. An hysterical motorist jumped out of his Pontiac screaming that a car had just veered off Mem Drive into the Charles River. Within minutes, Sgt. Peter A. O'Hare and Officer Thomas Simas were groping about the turbid ice water for the submerged car door. They dragged one of the two women from the river and collapsed from overexposure. A month later they were to be commended for saving one woman's life. Not every day in the life of a University policeman is that memorable, but the fast response was a sign...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police: Chafin' at the Bit | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...like A1, and there's good food and good music, and the price isn't going to cripple anyone," the man taking tickets at the door said. "We're here for a good time...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Vellucci, Friends Gather for Party | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...missing husband, a handsome minister who she secretly believes married her as an act of self-punishment. The Rev. Philipson was supposedly killed five years earlier, when his small plane crashed in the Canadian woods. But he has been spotted near Boonton by a hippie who once lived next door to the Philipsons back in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Gothic | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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