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ARRESTED. Peter Beard, 47, jet-set photographer-adventurer and estranged husband of Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, whose work depicts Beautiful People and vanishing African wildlife; on charges of illegally cultivating marijuana on his Kenyan ranch and of possession of allegedly obscene materials, notably a book of Helmut Newton photographs; in Nairobi. Beard denied both charges and was released on $294 bail...
...facilities serve as a supply and deployment base for the U.S. Central Command, formerly called the Rapid Deployment Force, should a crisis develop in the region. Washington has spent $256 million to lengthen runways, harden concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies to be forwarded by helicopter to U.S. naval task-force ships in the Indian Ocean...
...more than eight years in the void, Voyager 2 had closed to within 46 million miles of Uranus, its next target. The spacecraft's early shots of the mysterious planet, which is four times as large as the earth, were transmitted across 1.8 billion miles of space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They depicted Uranus as a fuzzy blue-green ball, showed its five known moons and barely discerned the outermost of its dark rings...
...checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets on a jet. If Travolta likes new sweats and shoes for every workout, Isaacson supplies them. "When they don't get what they want, they get testy," he says of his clients, and he is willing to go the extra mile...
...mobility is partly brought about by greater gang wealth from trafficking in cocaine and other drugs. This translates into cars, sophisticated weaponry and access to air travel. Last October four jet-age thieves ranging in age from twelve to 18 flew from Los Angeles to Seattle and robbed a jewelry store of more than $300,000 in gems. One was arrested at Seattle's airport, but the others presumably grabbed a return flight home...