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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior defenseman Todd Flichel had been whistled for a holding infraction two minutes earlier, thus allowing the vaunted and much feared Crimson power play unit onto...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Column One | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...operation was a consummate inside job. Some baggage handlers at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport plucked suitcases loaded with cocaine off incoming planes from Rio de Janeiro and switched them onto conveyor belts headed for domestic flights before the luggage ever got to Customs inspectors. Others simply picked up the bags and carried them out through emergency exits. Accomplices erased from airline computer systems all records of the flights made by the couriers who carried the drugs from Brazil. Since 1981, the ring may have smuggled $1.5 billion worth of cocaine through J.F.K. Last Tuesday narcotics agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: A $1.5 Billion Inside Job | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...mustache, and agents speculated that he had undergone facial surgery. Authorities found him by shadowing Danny Martinez, a cowhand pal. "We set up a net around Mr. Martinez, and Dallas walked into it," said an FBI agent. In Idaho, Dallas faces an additional five years for prison escape, tacked onto his 30-year sentence for manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Bringing In A Badman | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's animal heads phased out as they begin to fall onto unsuspecting freshman's plates...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...Gibson first burst onto the global consciousness--and the pages of fan magazines--with a pair of post-apocalyptic films about a man who just couldn't take it anymore. That man, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mad Mel Gibson Kills Again | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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