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STEVE HOWE (ex-Yankee pitcher) BROUGHT: Loaded .357 Magnum EXCUSE: Filled out declaration form, but his wife, who owned the gun, forgot to unload it while packing...
...April when the Amistad docked in Mystic, Connecticut, to unload its captured cargo. It was a blustery 40 degrees, and the West Africans were dressed in rags. Iron neck yokes and chains connected one to another and prevented them from wiping the brine and dirt from their eyes...
Getting the Pentagon to lobby for lifting the restraints was easy. Then Defense Secretary William Perry had met with Latin American generals, and was convinced their days of overthrowing governments was over. If the Pentagon was lucky, it might even be able to unload some of its older model F-16s south of the border and use the proceeds to restock its air wings with newer versions of the Falcon. Industry executives and Perry aides began publicly plugging the idea of lifting the restrictions: the countries of Latin America save for Cuba were now democratic, their economies were rebounding...
...trying time for CompuServe shareholders, who have watched the company's stock fall from about $30 a share when it went public in April to $10.811/4 Friday. The company lost $88 million in the six months ending Oct. 31. H&R Block reportedly is trying to unload the remaining 80 percent of its stake in CompuServe. "Our goal remains a speedy and sustained turnaround at CompuServe, and under Bob's leadership the company has made progress in that direction," Salizzoni said in his statement. "The board of directors will work quickly to find a chief executive officer who will...
Well, if you have some extra trumpets and sousaphones you're looking to unload, you might want to head to Quincy, Mass., whose working-class community is all riled up over a more '90s type "threat" to their children...