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...early 1978, Vance left on a Middle East mission to Cairo and Jerusalem with the usual gaggle of reporters in tow. House second-guessed the Secretary of State's purpose and, on a hunch, called Washington. Speaking to a contact on then-President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council, House asked him if Vance was travelling to the Middle East to personally invite Begin and Sadat to a summit in the United States. She recalls his shocked response, saying. "I knew my hunch was correct when he refused to either confirm or deny it." Though she had no confirmed sources...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: On the Trail of Statesmanship | 1/19/1983 | See Source »

...Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this cache will approach Miami and run aground on a reef. Hula will be called by the port authorities, who trust him, to salvage the wreck and tow it in. The coke will be removed. Then Cruz will peddle it to the very gangsters from whom he stole it in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder on the Cocaine Express | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...that sounds like a real bummer." I said, giving the red elephant a poke with my tow. It had started to rain, and he looked a bit soggy. "What's going to happen to Lenny, there--uh, are you going to change him back...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: He Looked a Little Like Allen Ginsberg | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

Among those overcome was Jailer Tom Miller, 43, who passed out after answering Pates' early-morning cries and freeing prisoners in the facility's north cell block. He was dragged tp safety, but his keys, needed to free other inmates, were lost, forcing rescuers in tow trucks to wrench doors from walls and bars from windows. "In that south cell block," said Policeman Dan Russell, "nearly all of them were dead." Some inmates tried to save themselves from the deadly smoke by stuffing rags beneath their cell doors. Others, said Prisoner Charlie Acevedo, "wrapped their faces with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Smoke | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Mission specialist Joseph Allen recalled that after he and William Lenoir deployed tow communications satellites last week Brand commented that the only flight objectives left were an EVA, extravehicular activity and a landing. Allen said he responded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Space Shuttle Concludes Its 'Fantastic Voyage' | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

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