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...street value of intercepted dope amounts to around $5 billion. Smugglers, however, have risen to the challenge by trafficking in smaller, harder-to-detect loads and by moving some off-loading operations to other places, including California and the Atlantic Coast as far north as Nova Scotia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Nets | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 16, 1983 | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Jamie's responses 1 Sibley (Sibley): 2 Authority-manger (Not meeting my own standards), 3 Masterpiece Theater (Nova). 4 Air Force Pilot (Solon), 5 Tunisia (Tunisia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The (Almost) Newlywed Game | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

Inside, the Queen reminded the 400 Americans that Britannia was essentially retracing a stretch of Sir Francis Drake's 1579 route up the Pacific Coast. He "claimed this territory as 'Nova Albion' for the first Queen Elizabeth," she said, "and 'for the Queen's successors forever.' " Smile. Pause. "I am happy, though, to give you an immediate assurance that I have not come here today to press that claim." (She failed to deliver the kicker that the Nova Albion/California natives at the time, utterly wowed by their godlike English visitor, lavished Drake with gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Queen Makes A Royal Splash | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Karaoke sets are being turned out by most of Japan's major electronics firms. One $4,000 top-of-the-line model includes synthesizers that can create a bossa nova or waltz beat, a computerized music memory system and two giant 5-ft. speakers. For $1,000 more, vocalists can add a small black box that grades their singing by scoring how well they stay on pitch and keep time with the beat of the electronic accompaniment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closet Carusos | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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