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...deep. He had been thwarted after the Marines and the U.S. embassy were bombed in Lebanon and following the hijacking of the TWA plane. He held only a thin hope that things would turn out differently this time. Before he left the Oval Office for another flying tour to plug tax reform, he ordered National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to use every intelligence source available to track the ship hijackers. Then he strode to his waiting helicopter...
...large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil...
...Angeles police, eyeing their roster of unsolved crimes--4,350 murders, 2,500 rapes, 4,000 robberies and 20,000 burglaries--cannot wait to plug these cases into the state's new system. Other California lawmen share their enthusiasm. "There are a lot of people walking the streets out there who think they're home free," says Orange County Lieut. Richard Olson. "Once we get these computer systems working together, they're going to be in for a surprise...
...Massachusetts native and six other members of Mensa posed in the buff for the pages of the November Playboy. Last Friday two, Coel and JoAnn Harjes, came to a Boston Store 24 to sign autographs and plug the magazine...
After that the Crimson seemed to fall back into the same bad habits that plagued them in the first 35 minutes. Listless defense and uninspired offense worked against it as the Huntington Avenue Hounds continued to plug away...