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...school biology teacher and Cub Scout leader, is an internationally respected researcher whose specialty is birds of prey. But he did not obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained raptors is still popular and a perfect live bird can sell for thousands of dollars...
Mary Shelley would be pleased-or would she? The author's redivivus creation, the Frankenstein monster, is back again for a new-wave horror movie that sounds like, but is not, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. It stars Rock Singer Sting, 33, as Baron Frankenstein, and Flashdance Star Jennifer Beals, 20, as Eva, whom the good doctor whips up in the lab as a mate for his born-again monster. "I thought it would be interesting to play someone who came back from the dead but was still very human," says Beals. Understandably, her character shuns Frank...
...could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." The young Muhammad Ali dazzled all who saw him perform in the ring, where his dancer's footwork and lightning-fast combinations enabled him to win the world heavyweight championship three times. And out of the ring, his nonstop chatter, his doggerel verse and his insistence that he was "the greatest" won him worldwide affection...
...start when National Credit's owner, pressed by racketeers for "street taxes," turned in fear to the FBI. Apparently the FBI did no soliciting and acted primarily as a middleman between call-girl rings and their customers, a less active role than the agency assumed in the drug sting of John De Lorean. Observed a happy FBI agent last week: "I don't think we'll have to worry about entrapment with this...
...takes a Hinckley to change the insanity laws and a De Lorean to curtail sting operations, then the case of Geraldine Ferraro may turn out to be a first step back from the piety-in-government excursion Americans have been on since Watergate. One day Ms. Ferraro's vice-presidential candidacy, perhaps her political career, hangs in the balance; the next day, after a tough and gutsy public performance-a Checkers for the '80s-she is back in gear, leaving us all to wonder if we hadn't lost our heads for just a moment...