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...sales peaked in 1985 and have been falling ever since. In 1986 Coleco made a seemingly shrewd move in buying the company that held the license to the popular Trivial Pursuit game, but soon yuppies began to grow tired of asking one another questions like "Who played the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion...
...Veterans Memorial. The Governor will be in Greenville attacking Dole's textile votes." Atwater: "I'd do it in Spartanburg." Press Aide Barbara Pardue suggests that since Pat Robertson was endorsed the previous day by Cowboy Roy Rogers, the Bush campaign should seek a rival endorsement from the Lone Ranger. Laughter...
...local police department to ferret out drug use among the 765 students. On Oct. 24 his body was discovered in a clump of cedar trees near town, a .38-cal. bullet hole in the head. "His cover was blown, and he was murdered because of it," said a Texas Ranger investigating the case...
...Silkworms were apparently launched from the Fao peninsula, a spit of Iraqi land north of Kuwait that is now occupied by Iran. An American air strike against the sites would seem the most logical countermeasure. But the nearest U.S. fighter-bombers are on the aircraft carrier Ranger, cruising in the Arabian Sea 1,200 miles from Fao. The jets would have to refuel in midair, since the gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are skittish about letting them land on their territory for fear of Iranian reprisal. And because the Silkworms are truck-mounted and mobile, there...
...that doctors suspect multiple sclerosis. Walt Dabney, 41, of Herndon, Va., suffered for more than two years with many of these symptoms and ran up $4,000 in medical bills before his problem was correctly diagnosed: he had Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks. Says Dabney, chief ranger for the National Park Service: "I'm convinced that a lot of people are being treated for arthritis when they've been bitten by a tick...