Word: swatting
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NASA has appointed a kind of outer-space swat team to figure out how to make up for the scientific gap left by the loss of Mars Observer. The team, which includes all-around space guy Carl Sagan, will look into whether cheaper, less complex space probes can map Mars and whether foreign nations should be invited to take part. A report is due in two months...
...supposed to happen this week, stunning America with a new and ghoulish kind of pre-Fourth of July fireworks display. It won't, though. A SWAT team of FBI agents and New York City police burst into a garage in the borough of Queens at 1:30 last Thursday morning, catching five men hunched over 55-gal. barrels, swirling wooden spoons to mix fertilizer and diesel fuel into an explosive paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids...
...following that included Bruce Springsteen and Rickie Lee Jones. Another early fan was director Jonathan Demme, who cast Isaak in cameo bits in his films Married to the Mob (Remember the fast-food clown who tried to rub out Tony the Tiger?) and Silence of the Lambs (as a SWAT team member). He had a few lines of dialogue in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but his biggest break came last year, when director Bernardo Bertolucci invited him to play the American father of a reincarnated Tibetan lama in Little Buddha, due to be released...
...MOMENT WAS MORE MARX BROTHERS THAN classic Mafia. Wrapped in a bath towel at his wooded redoubt near Mount Olive, New Jersey, fugitive Anthony Salvatore Casso, 52, one of the nation's most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered -- hands up high, dripping wet -- to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow...
...choice, tune to CNN on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9 p.m. EST. "It is our mission," says CNN executive producer Stacy Jolna, "to keep TIME's secret safe and to translate the Man of the Year cover story into a compelling television production." Working with Jolna was a special "SWAT team" of half a dozen secret operatives who spent the past three weeks culling the best sound and pictures from thousands of hours of videotape to put together this year's show. Viewers will learn not only the identity of the 1992 Man of the Year but also...