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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more likely to be criminals than crime fighters. Among the original 13 is Tony Mayo, 18, a black who never knew his father, lost his mother when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind me, I can feel your vibes." Arnaldo Salinas, 18, another ghetto child, wants to be an FBI man. "There's not so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...m outta my head. Please take me home." They did. Back on the line, they met an old woman who said simply, "You boys, you make me feel safe again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Earlier in the week, NRC Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie had gloomily warned that the shutdowns would have a "profound importance for our power supply." For one thing, the utilities that own the B & W reactors would be forced to buy electricity elsewhere for their customers. That would be costly. William Lee, chief executive of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., estimated that the cost of such a shutdown would run more than $100 million a month. But, under the compromise, these forecasts seemed somewhat alarmist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixing Nukes | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...remarked to a coworker, "What would you think if I told you I'm the Hillside Strangler?" Someone passed the comment along to the police, but it was one of thousands of tips, and was ignored. After Bianchi's arrest in Bellingham, Los Angeles police took another look and discovered some remarkable coincidences. For six months he had lived in the same Glendale apartment building as Kristina Weckler, the Hill side Strangler's seventh victim. He lived across the street from Cindy Hudspeth, victim No. 13, and once lived in the Hollywood apartment building where Kimberly Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Murderous Personality | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with a frown. In a tea factory, she gamely swallowed a bitter brew rather than spit it out into a handy spittoon. "Of course I'm not going to spit it out," she joked to disappointed photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Iron Lady vs. Sunny Jim | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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