Word: interceptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 13 seconds remaining and MIT on a power play, Marshall helped send the game into overtime when he skied out of the pool to intercept a pass intended for a wide-open Engineer in front of the Harvard goal...
Advocates say it would cut down on street crime, a greater menace than the drugs themselves. But opponents charge that legalization would cause a vast increase in addiction, and they appear to have the better case. -- Congress wants the military to intercept drugs, despite the Pentagon' s objections. -- Meanwhile, the feds seize flotillas of yachts for specks of narcotics. See NATION...
With lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...most important points of entry into the U.S. for Mexican-grown marijuana, as well as cocaine from Colombia. Last year the Border Patrol in the McAllen sector captured drugs worth more than $182 million. Yet for all their success, the Border Patrol and other U.S. agencies estimate that they intercept just 10% of the drugs coming across the Mexican border...
...role in the Iran-contra arms deal as well. Jose Blandon, until recently Panama's consul general in New York City and a close political adviser to Noriega, disclosed that the general had conspired with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, to dispatch, then intercept, a shipment of East German arms to El Salvador's leftist guerrillas. The motive: to blame Nicaragua for supplying the weapons, thereby supporting the charge that the Sandinistas are exporting their revolution...