Word: p
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Extraordinary, unique!" Attorney General Dick Thornburgh exclaimed of the drug-fighting airplane proudly displayed last week by the U.S. Customs Service. A dazzling new aircraft? No. It was a used Lockheed P-3 Orion, designed in the 1950s. The $31 million turboprop has just one major innovation: a 360 degrees radar dome capable of spotting smugglers' low-flying planes as effectively as the $48 million Grumman E-2C Hawkeye, which Customs had been using. The Lockheed can stay aloft twelve hours -- three times as long as the Hawkeye, which must refuel after four hours...
Cover photographs: Sasso by Richard Sobol; Baker by Cynthia Johnson; Dukakis by Steve Liss; and Bush by P. F. Bentley
Alexandra P. Biryukova, the highest-ranking woman in the Soviet hierarchy, gained an alternate, or non-voting, Politburo spot, as did Anatoly I. Lukyanov and Interior Minister Alexander. V. Vlasov, the nation's top policeman...
Instead, she kicked off a write-in/sticker campaign against Cambridge truant officer Alvin P. Thompson, who unexpectedly beat her to the nomination two weeks...
...Lester P. Lee, Jr., a former City Council candidate now advising Thompson on his campaign, said Thompson would accept a challenge from a Republican candidate, but since Thompson had won the Democratic Primary there was no reason to debate Graham. No Republicans ran for the seat in the primary, and none have emerged in the past two weeks...