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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That hint of danger had not dissuaded the nine Americans, most of them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles west of Haiti. Unaccountably cheerful through the stormy night, the five-man Jamaican crew and the boat's Kingston owner, Gilbert Thompson ("I couldn't trust the responsibility of this trip to just the crew"), kept the craft on course toward its tiny target: a flat-topped limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Caribbean: Hams and Goats | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...East Jerusalem. By the end of the week, at least 70 Palestinians had been wounded by Israeli bullets; four Israeli soldiers and twelve civilians had been injured by Arab stones. In Gaza, a seven-year-old boy died from the effects of an Israeli bullet wound in his stomach. In Jerusalem, a five-year-old Arab girl was recovering from surgery after doctors removed an Israeli bullet from her brain. Elsewhere in Jerusalem, a three-year-old Israeli girl lay gravely injured with a fractured skull and was in danger of losing the sight of one eye. She had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Suspicion, Hate and Rising Fears | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...rate of conviction, many states have made a blood-alcohol level of .10% in drivers a crime in itself, rather than merely evidence of intoxication that must be buttressed by other proof. (To score .10%, a 160-lb. man would have to consume 5½ beers on an empty stomach in 90 minutes.) Even the judiciary, often criticized for being too lenient with drunken drivers, is becoming stern. Judges in Quincy, Mass., have agreed to put every first offender in jail for three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Is the Party Finally Over? | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Kilgore told the jury that Hussain entered her room at 3 a.m. on October 19, 1978, and began rubbing her stomach, eventually moving his hand "down to the vagina area." She added that he took her hand and started "rubbing it against his crotch" but left the room when she began "stirring...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: First Day of Testimony Opens In Rape Trial of Arif Hussain | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...Buzz Jones, and I dimly remembered some parts of the last night's conversation. Picking up the New York Times, I mechanically found the sports page. The Mets had dropped a heart breaker to the Expos in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Something pulled desperately in my stomach, and I headed for an extended prayer session with the great porcelain...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Thrashing in Dream Land | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

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