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...Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval conditions in Mexican jails. Relatives of the 577 Americans in Mexican prisons organized "Boycott Mexico" campaigns...
Coach Bob Scalise lauded the play of his backs after the game. "The halfbacks and fullbacks pinned B.C. into its own end. Whenever B.C. got the ball, either we made a good tackle or we stepped in front to intercept the ball on a pass...
...Voyagers have some special baggage: a sound-and-light show designed to give anyone (or anything) that might intercept the ship an idea of what things are like back on Earth. Earthly images include slides showing human anatomy and a diagram of human conception, mathematical formulas, and a shot of Idaho's spectacular Snake River. Among the recordings: street sounds, the cry of a newborn baby, the hum of a string quartet, the roar of a Saturn rocket lifting off. Also included is a greeting written and read by President Carter. "This is a present from a small, distant...
...from the world's largest military base, just outside Murmansk, and heads westward to probe Norway's air defenses. Alerted by radar, a vast ultramodern command center in the craggy mountain range of northern Norway scrambles two Norwegian Royal Air Force F-104G Starfighters. The fighters usually intercept the Badger within a few minutes; one of them hangs off the Soviet craft's tail, while the other flies just ahead of its nose. The lead Norwegian Starfighter will then waggle its wings in a signal to the Soviet pilot to turn back before he has violated Norwegian...
Ground controllers will then begin navigating the craft into closer and closer orbits of the sun by properly trimming the sail. Then they can put the ship-moving at a top speed of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour-on a course to intercept Halley's comet in March 1986. Jettisoning the sail, and "flying station" just two kilometers above the comet's head, the ship will take TV pictures and readings to determine the visitor's composition and origin. Says J.P.L.'s Murray: "We don't have a clue about comets...