Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government classifies Terzi as an excludable alien, which allows him to travel outside a 25-mile radius New York only with special permission. Terzi has been allowed to travel to Massachusetts to vacation, but never to speak publicly...
...apartment on March 1. Her apartment had been ransacked; she had been suffocated with a pillow and raped. Then, on March 6, Aretha Clements, 60, was discovered by her son: she had been strangled, raped and robbed. On March 11, Dena Mae Mike, 62, blind and living only a mile away from the others, became the third victim. By the time the body of Grace Hill, 68, was discovered on April 9, the police had already formed a task force to investigate the similarities in the murders. "We have to be sensitive after what we went through," says Major...
...about the American West and Alaska, keeping to himself, getting by on odd jobs, never staying in one place for very long. Last week the misanthrope, who wants only to be left alone, briefly became a focus of international attention. Early this month the Wanderer took a 2 1/2- mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated him there for nearly two weeks. Weymouth finally convinced them that he was not seeking to defect--just...
...English bases, Canada and Israel. All the others at minimum counseled against a raid; France and Spain went further, vexing U.S. opinion by refusing to let the F-111s fly over their territory. That forced the bombers to take a circuitous route that added 2,400 nautical miles to their 5,600-mile round trip...
Several minutes into the attack, two things went tragically wrong, possibly in connection with each other. One of the F-111s dropped its bombs in a residential area a mile south of the harbor, killing several civilians, destroying homes and damaging other buildings, including the French embassy and the Swiss Ambassador's residence. It seems highly coincidental, to say the least, that the bomb exploded only a few blocks from Libya's internal- security headquarters, reputedly a onetime haunt of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal. U.S. officials insist, however, that the security facility was not a U.S. target...