Word: lam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region's geography and partly in its history. The area is a natural Ellis Island for all those coming, for whatever reason, from the Caribbean and points south. The region's benign climate and studied informality have long made it prime destination for Americans on the make, on the lam or on a pension. With it hundreds of miles of coves and inlets, the area is also an ideal port of entry for boat laden with
...newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided, but had been rented in the name of Nina Lewis, an alias police believe is being used by Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, another radical on the lam. Buck is known to have been a gunrunner for the B.L.A. and is believed to be its only white member...
Federal authorities are still unsure if Boyce received foreign help while on the lam. They think he may have spent part of the time abroad, before blending into the rural life of Washington as a quiet, well-mannered young man. "I have some ambivalent feelings about [him]," admits Christman. "The guy is likable. The only problem is that he is a manipulator; he uses people." Adds Kay Sullivan, whose husband worked with Boyce in a short-lived commercial fishing venture in La Push, on the Pacific coast: "He was not anti-American. He cared about his country...
...cool and lonely and death-fixated. He daydreams of The Maltese Falcon and Captain Blood. He picks up a couple of girls. Then, in an inexplicable error, he makes off with a suitcase of cash he was supposed to deliver to his associates and is on the lam. Gifford is a terrific storyteller, and his taut tale grips with all the intensity of the most unabashedly commercial thrillers...
...outside, her policies and her government were being buffeted by bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs...