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Mayr is a noted authority on birds of New Guinea and the South Pacific, which he studied extensively as curator of the department or ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History before coming to teach at Harvard...
Pirates was essentially a guinea pig for what some film executives see as a lucrative marketing technique of the future. By 1984 there may be as many as 3 million homes equipped for pay-per-view. That growing audience theoretically offers Hollywood the possibility of recouping the entire cost of a film in a single evening, conceivably without cutting into theatrical box-office receipts...
...January 25, 1983, Barbie received notification of his impending expulsion from Bolivia, and a few days later found himself abroad a C-130 transport plane headed for French Guinea. Waiting to accept the prize for France's socialist government, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy explained to the world the reasoning behind Barbie's extradition...
OCCUPATION: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Republic of Cameroon and to Republic of Equatorial Guinea...
Leon Dillinger has had similar success in another obscure corner of Asia: the interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long...