Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Strahan Fort Worth...
Anne Steely Fort Collins, Colo...
...Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts for the 8,500-man 42nd Infantry Division, Army National Guard...
...high seas have caused many skittish yachtsmen to arm themselves before sailing in Bahamian waters, despite the authorities' insistence that there is no cause for concern. But there is no denying that the drug trade is booming in the small cays. Says Skip Nichols, 33, a Fort Myers marina operator: "Right where Kalia III was found, I have watched drug transactions with my binoculars." There are so many isolated cays-at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago-that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots have become notorious among yachtsmen...
DIED. John Howard Griffin, 60, novelist who in 1959 used chemicals and ultraviolet light to change the pigment of his skin temporarily from white to black, then walked, bused and hitchhiked through the South and wrote about his experiences in Black Like Me; of complications arising from diabetes; in Fort Worth. His book, published in 1961, stirred consciences throughout the U.S., sold more than 1 million copies and was made into a movie...