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...amateur handling of the clutch. I was stone sober but starting to feel woozy as I desperately wobbled our growling vehicle toward the exit ramp. Dave, Kevin, and Nate--still under the effects of Montreal's 18-year-old bar scene--were too drunk to notice the hovering patrol car, until his red and blues started flashing...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...sources, who demanded anonymity, said the carriers Kennedy and Nimitz and a Mediterranean Amphibious Ready group of roughly 1900 Marines were steaming on a "routing patrol pattern" in the southeastern Mediterranean, south of Cyprus and relatively close to Lebanon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Warships Approach Beirut | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...ignoring her doctor's instructions. Judge Randell Wilkinson threw out the * ticket rather than rule on the legal status of a fetus. Yasger, who has two other children, felt vindicated. "I was very serious about it," she said, "but I definitely can see the humor." Nonetheless the California Highway Patrol will continue to write similar tickets. Says Officer Paul Caldwell: "Our officers are not qualified to determine whether a lady is with child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: And Baby Makes Two | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Finishing the bottle, and not yet drunk enough to sleep out in the cold, he gathers his blanket around his neck and heads for the subways beneath city hall, where hundreds of the homeless seek warmth. Once inside, the game of cat-and-mouse begins with the police, who patrol the maze of tunnels and stairways and insist that everybody remain off the floor and keep moving. Sitting can be an invitation to trouble, and the choice between sleep and warmth becomes agonizing as the night wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Saturday's mass abduction began to unfold when three men wearing olive- drab uniforms and the trademark red berets of the Lebanese special police entered the college campus at about 7 p.m. in what appeared to be a police patrol jeep. They had campus security guards round up a dozen of the school's teaching staff, saying they wanted to discuss new security arrangements. When the group had assembled, police said later, the terrorists picked out the four professors, "drew their guns and took them all away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Frenzy of Hostage Taking | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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