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...event lasts all day. It is part love-in, part crafts festival and part political rally. On the midway, vendors hawk everything from T shirts and tattoos to voter-registration cards and safe-sex instructions. There are demonstrations of body piercing and Caribbean cooking. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the National Rifle Association are there. And -- oh, yes -- there's also a concert. In fact, quite a concert, with a nine-hour lineup of alternative bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, the Jesu and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam and Lush...
...White House staff, Drug Enforcement Administration chief ROBERT BONNER may want to begin circulating his resume. Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted for the Caribbean. Under a plan that one top Administration source calls "remarkably stupid," DEA would base 10 Black Hawk helicopters in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for chasing down drug smugglers flying out of Colombia. One of Bonner's targets: drugs being air- dropped to boats. Customs and the Coast Guard objected, since they already operate large interdiction forces in the Caribbean. Besides, the air drops are declining, according...
...intelligence on the hostages' location. Five of the six Americans were being held in Building No. 18 in the Sheik Abdullah barracks in the Baalbek region of Lebanon. "Very possibly," adds Wheaton, "North ordered the raid after irate Iranian officials threatened to retaliate for a shipment of the wrong Hawk missiles." In fact, three days before the Gander crash, North revealed both his determination to continue the Iranian arms shipments and his concern for the hostages' safety. "To stop now in midstream," he wrote, "would ignite Iranian fire. Hostages would be our minimum losses...
...place for the first home game of the year as the Fenway Faithful filled the cozy confines of baseball's most beloved ballpark. Red, white and blue bunting fluttered in the wind blowing in from center field. Perrenial vendors emerged from their winter hibernation to hawk peanuts, pretzels and pennants outside the park...
Some movies are so ferociously prejudged -- sometimes because of costs that seem scandalous, sometimes because of controversies with pressure groups or the ratings board -- that it becomes difficult to evaluate them fairly when they appear. One looks so chic (and so inside) airily dismissing something like Ishtar or Hudson Hawk. What fun for critics and show-biz reporters. And so easy...