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...source for this tale was somewhat less than objective. Two owners of Studio 54, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, had been charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in June. The charges followed a raid on the disco in December 1978 in which Schrager had been arrested for possession of cocaine. Rubell's chief lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, onetime aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, said last week that in preparing for the trial Rubell told him that the discotheque's many famous visitors included Jordan and Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cocaine Caper? | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...fastidiously designed compound looks as tame as a set in an oldtime jungle horror movie. His murder, which is archly intercut with the ritual slaughter of a carabao, is the film's only poorly shot death scene. Apocalypse Now's much talked-about discarded ending - another air raid - would not have illuminated this murk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...Hyatt Brown, 42. While he plotted the coup that would make him speaker of the Florida house of representatives, Brown kept a clipping of the Israeli lightning raid on Entebbe pinned to his office wall to remind him of the value of surprise. Surprise he did. While the incumbent speaker and supporters were feasting at a dinner, Brown's cohorts, known as "the dirty dozen," collected legislators' signatures on a petition that changed the house's voting rules and enabled Brown to call for an immediate vote that gave him the gavel. Since then the Republican, a former insurance salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily (1978). With a warrant, police can make a surprise raid on a newsroom to search for evidence of crime committed by others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Dry Spell of Doubt for Reporters | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...fact, Israel is not merely retaliating against terrorist raids or bombings. Since the death of four Israelis during an April 22 Palestinian raid on the town of Nahariya, Israel has been conducting preemptive strikes into Lebanon. In Washington's view, the new policy risks a direct Israeli confrontation with the Syrians, whose more than 22,000 troops constitute the principal peace-keeping force in Lebanon. After the air battle, Syria reportedly issued orders for its MiGs to intercept all Israeli flights over Lebanon. In turn, Premier Begin told the Jewish Assembly: "Damascus should know that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Frightening Clash in the Skies | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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