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...ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface- to-air missiles to counter the Soviet Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters that the Sandinistas received last fall. For the past two months, truck convoys have ferried weapons from Honduras, including West German G-3 automatic assault rifles and dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say Uncle, Says Reagan | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...have been a hundred dogs barking all the way down the mountain. My heart was in my mouth." Levin hiked for two hours before reaching a main highway. There he heard "a dog and human voices. I thought my kidnapers were at my heels, so I hid under a truck. But when I saw it was Syrian soldiers, I gave myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Philip has taken a job driving a milk truck from Minnesota to Illinois; he travels twelve days out of every 14. Debbie works as a licensed practical nurse. The two jobs contribute about $1,000 a month to keep the dairy operation and a smattering of beef cattle going. The farm's electric bill alone often runs to $600 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinging to the Land | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...clock, it has had a long and illustrious history. According to Baybank, in the early 60's an errant truck sidewsiped it, smashing the time-keeper but leaving the post intact. Similar tragedy befell the clock in 1964 when another semitrailer ran over the landmark demolishing both the clock, and its post. In July 1965, the bank reinstalled the clock one more time, but a Harvard Trust's distinctive clock is back in business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Trust's Clock Returns | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

...Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader and a suspect in the murder of Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Closing in on the Brotherhood | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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