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...timing was worthy of a first-rate Hollywood spy thriller. One day before the Swedish container ship Elgaren was due to make a seven-hour stop in the port of Hamburg, U.S. officials informed their colleagues in West Germany that the ship was carrying Soviet-bound contraband. Once the ship had docked, however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last-Minute Bust in Hamburg | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...They lived the greatest adventure of our time...and the greatest love story." So reads a three-page ad in TV Guide for Kennedy. This seven-hour, three-part mini-series addresses only John F. Kennedy's White House years but grandiously promises to deliver a look at "the whole man. The whole family. The whole story...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Capturing the Man Who Captivated | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

Today's thrilling seven-hour jaunt to Cornell should be a tad easier for the Harvard field hockey squad...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Top-Ranked Huskies Nip Upstart Stickwomen, 2-0 | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...leftist insurgents suddenly ended a two-month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached. The significance of the attack was that in other areas of the country, U.S. military advisers are encouraging the use of Viet Nam-era pacification tactics to thwart the Salvadoran insurgency; the San Miguel assault was the first major guerrilla response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras: Making Themselves at Home | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

After a week of preparation, they were disguised as tribesmen by the muhajedeen and taken on a seven-hour bus trip to the Afghan border. The trip, which is illegal for Westerners, involved several close calls as the bus passed through Pakistani security checks...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Yalies Visit Afghanistan For Paper | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

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