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...town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew his C-123 transport plane to Managua and picked up 750 kilos of cocaine from a high-ranking Sandinista official, recording the transaction with hidden cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Smear | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...machine-tool salesman who now lives in Moorpark, Calif.? He claims that in 1983 North recruited him to go to Mena to work with Seal and help train contra pilots. He also says North asked him to donate a Piper airplane to the contras and then report the plane as stolen so that insurance would cover his loss. Later that year, Reed and his wife Janis received a $33,000 insurance payment for the Piper. He says he quit the contra effort in August 1987 after he learned that it involved drug running. For that, he claims, the government sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Smear | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Though the 1991 Crimson finished a more promising 21-17, mishaps continued. Seconds before Harvard's takeoff to its new spring break destination, Fort Meyers, slugger Bev Armstrong had not yet boarded the plane...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Softball Team: Blazing Its Own Trail | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...Haskell fumed over her where-abouts, she ran onto the plane, almost knocking over the attendant land is perfectly positioned to make a killingin...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Softball Team: Blazing Its Own Trail | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...have left, and the Soviet Union has disappeared. But the fighting in Karabakh continues, and the death toll rises. The suffering is indiscriminate, with innocent civilians afflicted as often as warriors. Last week, as rockets could be heard falling once again on Stepanakert a few miles away, a small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Soviet Union Carnage in Karabakh | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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