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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as Higgins was being interrogated, however, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency were preparing a damage assessment that concluded that information Higgins could give Hizballah was unlikely to harm U.S. security. He did not, for example, know the names of secret agents in the Middle East. No U.S. operations were changed as a result of the kidnaping. "The main danger was to Higgins," says an official familiar with the report. "It was a stupid posting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stupid Posting | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...peak. Obsessed with fear that he had contracted Lyme disease when he was bitten by ticks on fur-trapping expeditions over the years and then passed it along to his spouse, a 73-year-old man killed his wife and then himself with a twelve-gauge shotgun in their East Detroit home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Fatal Overreaction | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Cicippio has seven children from his first marriage. In 1985 he wed Elham Ghandour, 35, a secretary at the American embassy in East Beirut. The couple had reportedly discussed leaving the war-torn city only weeks before Cicippio was kidnaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Target | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...refreshing oasis for his ladies. No less resourceful was Emperor Nero, who reputedly dispatched runners up into the mountains to fetch ice, which he flavored with fruits and honey to make the original snow cone. And it is likely that Marco Polo, during his travels in the Far East, discovered sherbet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Come On In, The Water's Fine! | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...even possible to be wet and hip at the same time. In Manhattan's East Village, best explored with a bodyguard, the trendies dine at Cave Canem, a converted Turkish bathhouse serving a Roman feast, where the dance floor abuts a 7-ft. by 9-ft. pool. Summer Tuesdays and Thursdays are swimming nights. Says Owner Hayne Suthon, as she wrings out her hair in a towel: "It's the only place you can go swimming in New York without cement shoes and garbage bags." And the wildlife is spectacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Come On In, The Water's Fine! | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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