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...time only to grab my ancient cat, Minnie, and the manuscript of a book just two weeks from completion. By the time I tried to jump into my car to drive away, walls of flame were jumping over the driveway, scorching my face and shrouding the house in an angry orange haze. The three of us leaped, pursued by flames, into a van, and started to race down the mountain road. Within 50 yards, we knew we could go no farther. Flames 70 feet high were cresting over the curve of the hill on one side, and on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: In The Blazing Eye of the Inferno | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...sign reflects what Harvard Square merchants said yesterday is increasing frustration over a lack of police and community response to a recent wave of "smash and grab" burglaries of local shops...

Author: By Jean Gauvin, | Title: Confronting Crime In Harvard Square | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...into oncoming cars. Because the cops tend to start shooting at the first glimpse of a careering stolen vehicle, joyriders will place a four- or five-year-old up against the back window to discourage the fire. Afterward they often strip the car and sell the parts. The joyriders grab cars from Catholic more than from Protestant neighborhoods, so the I.R.A. has taken to kneecapping those whom they capture. For every child who wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...even Iraq's Arab neighbors are made nervous by Saddam's demonstrated . willingness to use his weapons. One year after assuming the presidency in 1979, Saddam sent his armies into Iran, anticipating a quick and easy grab of disputed territory. Before a cease-fire halted the fighting eight years later, Saddam had used his chemical weapons against Iran's soldiers and fired his missiles on Tehran and other cities. During the savage war, Saddam enunciated to a visiting Arab delegation his guiding philosophy toward the region by pounding a table with his shoe and shouting, "That's the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Sword of the Arabs | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...breaking conversation, he will shift his water glass to give the waiter more room as he arrives with the soup. When Sununu receives guests in his White House office, he will pour himself a cup of coffee (he drinks only decaf, which everyone agrees is a good thing) and grab a handful of M&M's without offering anything to anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bad John Sununu | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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