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Inevitably, the way in which De Lorean met with undercover agents posing as drug distributors while clandestine cameras and microphones recorded both sight and sound was reminiscent of the FBI's controversial Abscam operation. But, well aware of possible claims of entrapment, Justice Department officials stoutly insisted that the operation that netted De Lorean was carefully designed to meet all court standards. Moreover, they said De Lorean could not have been entrapped because the operation had not been aimed at him. Declared one FBI agent: "Hetrick was the original target. He was Mr. Big. De Lorean just walked into...
...five years, astronomers have been scanning the skies to become the first to sight one of history's most celebrated objects. Last week a Caltech team led by British Graduate Student David C. Jewitt, 24, and Staff Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
...burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
That is fine with the nations it is supposed to protect as long as the R.D.F. remains out of sight, but not out of mind. When the U.S. tries to mount training exercises in the area, it encounters political and diplomatic obstacles almost as daunting as the logistical challenge of airlifting halfway around the world the Seventh Marine Amphibious Brigade, which is stationed at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif...
...Khalifa, said: "I'm all for maneuvers [such as those scheduled for Oman later this year], and I welcome full cooperation with the U.S. in the security of our area, but only on the condition that it is handled and presented properly." Translated, that means "Stay out of sight...