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...Says he: "I had to stop reading the newspaper so I wouldn't get scared of getting on the plane." The airlines know well the devastating visual impact of a damaged plane. When the fuselage of an Eastern DC-9 cracked in half during a hard landing at Pensacola, Fla., last December, injuring three, airline workers quickly concealed the carrier's name with a tarpaulin. Similarly, Aloha employees hurriedly covered their company's logo on the damaged 737 by swabbing orange paint on the tail...
With so much drug-related horror in the inner cities, it is easy to assume that crack is an exclusively underclass problem. Not so. "I see Key Club members and honor-society members destroyed by crack," says Jeanne Howard of the state attorney's office in Palm Beach County, Fla. There is a terrible symbiosis between the wealthy addicts and the inner-city dealers. Privileged kids who venture into the ghetto to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on crack are largely responsible for the booming drug business...
...connects some 20,000 computers handling scientific research and unclassified military work. While Speer used fairly standard techniques for cracking passwords, he showed uncommon persistence. He attacked some 450 different computers and gained access to more than 30. Victims ranged from the Navy Coastal Systems Command in Panama City, Fla., to the Buckner Army Base in Okinawa...
...injured were transferred to the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which steamed to Mayport, Fla. From there they were flown to the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville. The other crewmen were taken to Mayport by the Carr and flown to the Charleston Air Force Base, where they arrived yesterday afternoon...
Steve Blad was born in Iowa but raised from childhood in Hollywood, Fla., by "old-fashioned, God-fearin', all-American parents," he says. "I was the first member of my family to get divorced, to drink whiskey and to roll dice." He grins his lopsided grin. "You might say, I like to color outside the lines...