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John Garang is seated in a dry riverbed, under the sweeping branches of an acacia tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...What should you do if someone tells you to buy drugs on the bus and they have a knife?" That anonymous written question startled Police Officer Nicholas Wade, who was leading a drug-education class at a Los Angeles elementary school; he had not expected sixth-graders to be so intimately acquainted with such street savagery. After a moment's hesitation, Wade read the question aloud to the 20 students, whose answer came without any hesitation. "Tell someone!" they chorused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Strategies | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...hunting grounds. In pursuit are the current equivalent of bounty hunters: Soviet agents under the baton of the crafty Colonel Zamatev. The influence of Film Director John Ford soon seems to overshadow the action: "(Joe's) hair had grown long, and rather than try to cut it with his knife he had begun wearing it in two braids that hung down over his chest. All you need now, he told himself, is a necklace of bear claws." But this is more than a scenario, and L'Amour has not simply traded Remingtons for rockets: his - knowledge of the frozen North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Aug. 4, 1986 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...first of twelve dives planned for the current mission, designed to survey the Titanic while testing new imaging equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name was obscured by "rivers of rust," then explored the foredeck and port side, where the scientists spotted portholes, the glass unbroken. They saw where the Titanic had split apart, just behind the third smokestack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: J.J. Tours The Titanic | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

According to police reports, one of the students--all of whom are minors--was in possesion of a burglar's tools and dangerous weapon, a five-inch knife with a handle...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Police Stop 3 Summer School Students Breaking Into U-Hall Through Grate | 7/3/1986 | See Source »

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