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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many have zigzagged from city to city, partly to stalk then" targets in an eery dance of death - drawing close, then pulling away - and partly to express in frantic motion a personality threatened with disintegration. Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union, New Orleans and Mexico; John Lennon's accused killer, Mark Chapman, moved from Tennessee to Atlanta to Honolulu and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Dangerous Loners | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

From that conclusion, Ruge's approach to White House health was plotted. He would not stalk the President, believing that an overzealous doctor can create a dependent patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey The Presidency:The Doctor and the Ideal Patient | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will stalk with a particular vengence...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Hunters and Hunted | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...profitable-crops. California's pot patches range from small gardens with a few plants to 2½-acre fields that may yield up to 4,000 sinsemilla plants, some with 4-in. trunks that stand 20 ft. tall. With 1 oz. of sinsemilla retailing for $250, and each stalk producing up to 32 oz. of pot, narcotics officials estimate the value of the California crop at a mind-blowing $1 billion-at least equal in value to the state's grape harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Shots in California | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...have the preponderance of power. If it were to start tomorrow, it would be over in a day." So concluded a senior Pentagon official last week, referring to a potential U.S.-Soviet naval clash in the now strategically critical Indian Ocean, where mighty armadas of the two superpowers warily stalk each other. So far, U.S. Navy Task Force 70 clearly rules the Indian Ocean's waves. Though the total number of ships fluctuates as vessels rotate in and out of Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area), the U.S. has had as many as 27 warships there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Confrontation at Camel Station | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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