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...Committee report stated that motorists, a bowling alley, a disco, nearby athletic field, and residential neighborhoods all he within that radius...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Health Authority Reissues Ban on Never Gas Testing | 9/25/1984 | See Source »

...There is something to be said," someone told me a couple weeks ago, "for living your entire early adult life within a quarter mile radius." My caller is very excited about going to school in Boston. He wants to know what the city is like...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Trivial Pursuit | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...already possesses up to 40 French Exocet air-to-surface missiles, the weapon that won headlines last year when Argentina used it successfully to sink two British ships in the Falklands war. Once the Super Etendards, which can fly up to 733 m.p.h. at low altitudes and have a radius of 530 miles without refueling, are armed with the Exocets, the Iraqis will be better able to threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Battling for the Advantage | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Armed with search warrants, the agents came early Wednesday morning to 15 middle-class homes throughout the U.S., peering under beds, pulling out drawers, seizing print-outs and floppy discs. In California, they simultaneously struck four homes within a 40-mile radius of Los Angeles. Wayne Correia, 17, of Irvine, Calif, looked up at 6:15 a.m. to find a man breaking in through his bedroom window. "FBI," the figure announced. "And that computer's mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Microkid Raids | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...church. By night, he prowled the streets of a middle-class neighborhood of two-story frame and brick houses on the edge of Hollywood. Police believe he may have raped as many as 100 women, ranging in age from 24 to 71, living in a ten-block radius. One of his victims, Sandra Trine, 37, died when she choked on her own vomit during the rape. On Aug. 11, after pleading guilty to 13 counts of rape and one of first-degree murder, he was given a stiff sentence of 142 years. "I was a victim," says Young, who spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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