Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call letters were RNI, for Radio NewYork International. The studio was a rusted 150-foot fishing ship, rechristened Sarah, anchored off Long Island just outside the U.S. three-mile territorial limit. The idea was to get beyond the Federal Communications Commission's reach to protest the "stale" sounds offered by licensed New York stations. The pirate broadcasts stopped last week, after four days, when Coast Guardsmen and FCC agents, citing an . international treaty prohibiting broadcasts aboard ships outside national territories, boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending...
...factor that has stymied investigators is the transient status of most of the victims. Many had few family ties; many were last seen alive hustling on the Sea-Tac strip, a three-mile stretch near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Cindy Anne Smith, for example, was, according to authorities, a runaway at 13 who sometimes supported herself as a topless dancer. Another victim, 15-year-old Carrie Ann Rois, was a streetwalker for three months before she disappeared...
...first glance, Moscow this summer looks much as it has for decades: office workers queuing up at street-side ice cream stands, red-kerchiefed flocks of Young Pioneers fidgeting in the mile-long line outside Lenin's Tomb, old women sweeping courtyards with twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks...
Cotton himself was born 51 years ago in Colon, at the northern end of the 51-mile-long canal. "Born and raised here, right alongside the canal, and so were my kids," he says. "It is tough to say goodbye when you are fourth generation...
Some 100,000 joined in the two-mile march, including phalanxes of students carrying pictures of Lee on forests of poles, youths bearing red-black-and- yellow banners, and a group of funeral dancers, who gracefully spun to the sounds of drums and cymbals. After reaching the city hall, the crowd sang patriotic songs, and a hearse departed for Kwangju, Lee's hometown 200 miles away...