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...Afghanistan and Angola with U.S.-made Stinger missiles, disturbed civil libertarians. The firing was based partly on Pillsbury's answers to questions on a polygraph test. The case has also been referred to the Justice Department, apparently as a stern message about the Reagan Administration's resolve to plug leaks. Pillsbury's defenders suggest that he spoke out to influence policy, not jeopardize national security. Says Morton Halperin, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office: "Leaking for policy reasons is an established Washington custom...
These blows left nuclear power moribund, like a patient who needs a respirator in order to survive. Now many fear that the accident at Chernobyl could prove to be the event that pulls the plug. "We're in trouble," conceded Carl Walske, the president of the Bethesda, Md.-based Atomic Industrial Forum, the lobbying group that speaks for the industry. "Before the accident, we could visualize the resumption of orders within about five years. We are still hoping that this will occur, but we expect that there will be some negative effect from a setback like this. If the calls...
...Year countdown begins with the dropping of a giant apple. First lighted on Nov. 6, 1928, to report Herbert Hoover's presidential election, the zipper paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug in 1962. Resurrected in 1965 by Life and other sponsors, it flickered until 1977. Last week's comeback is a $1 million promotional effort by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper intent on invading the city...
Vile Kyle sports a scraggly beard, guzzles beer and rides a motorcycle. Doug Plug looks so much like a fire hydrant that dogs eye him affectionately. These disgusting creatures, along with other urchins like Ghastly Ashley and Messy Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes...
...busiest new cocaine alley is the 2,100-mile Mexican border. "It's a sieve, and we don't have enough fingers to plug all the holes," says Drexel Watson, a senior special agent for the Customs Service. "More drugs than ever are coming in. It's pretty devastating." Mexico has become a conduit for as much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana...