Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could have enjoyed two, more effective options to shake up the Forum. He could have dived for the nearest Centrex, called 498-2101, and immediately become a member of the editorial board for next year. Or he could have jogged to Lamont or Hilles, marveled at the brown plastic submission boxes, and stuffed them full of the most "adventurous" papers he has written...
Camarena, an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, was helping block the narcotics pipeline from Mexico into the U.S. when he and his pilot disappeared on Feb. 7. Last month their battered bodies were found in plastic bags on a ranch outside Guadalajara...
...buildup began in February. In the dead of night, 200 men in camouflage uniforms, each carrying a new AK-47 rifle and two grenades, left their secret training camps in India and gathered by the edge of the sea. At a quiet command, they slipped into plastic, wide-bottomed boats and set off, guided by fishermen who steered by the stars. In less than two hours, the fighters had crossed 26 miles of the Palk Strait and were wading ashore, ready to wage war in Sri Lanka...
...lobby of Building No. 391 at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory near San Francisco stands a cast-iron sculpture of Shiva, the multiarmed god whose whirligig dances, according to Hindu tradition, alternately create and destroy all earthly life. Near by is a wood-and-plastic model of Nova, the world's most powerful laser, which is housed in cavernous quarters the size of a football field. The juxtaposition of the two objects is apt, and for several reasons. Like Shiva, the $176 million laser bristles with its equivalent of arms: ten bright blue tubes, each a conduit for an intense laser beam...
Several of the arrested officers charged that their confessions had been wrung by torture. Two of them, however, have admitted kidnaping Camarena. They say the Drug Enforcement Administration agent went along willingly when he saw who they were. Camarena's battered body was found three weeks ago in a plastic bag in a neighboring state, along with that of his Mexican pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar...