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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bastard son of a hundred maniacs" worked as a school janitor in Springwood, U.S.A., where his hobby was kidnaping and murdering teenagers. Tried for these crimes, he was freed on a technicality: "Oh, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place." So the parents of Elm Street tracked the demon down to his boiler room and burned him -- to death, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Intelligence professionals were reminded of the sensational case of former Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Walker, who pleaded guilty in 1985 to selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Conrad, says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "is in that league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clerk Who Knew Too Much | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...Hughes, it is necessary to reproduce his fancy only once in reality to achieve fulfillment. Indeed, after seeing Francis Coppola's marvelous Tucker, one believes that if the inventor had been forced to replicate his car endlessly on a production line, promote it and warrant it and tweak it around to create a little novelty each new model year, Tucker might have ended up running on empty, one of those corporate windbags booming the virtues of an individualism he has long since mislaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On The Road to Utopia TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by Arnold Schulman and David Seidler | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

That is what the FBI wants to determine. Two weeks ago, agents armed with search warrants showed up at the offices of Hazeltine, Parkin, Lackner and Berlin to pore through their papers. A search warrant directed them to look for "bank accounts of Berlin in which payments from Lackner may have been deposited in connection with his criminal activities pertaining to Government contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beltway Bandits at Work In the Pentagon | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...money for secret information, it will be a classic example of the most spectacular part of the Ill Wind mess. One clue to the kind of information often sought: FBI agents searched the Washington office of William Tallia, vice president of Pratt & Whitney, on the authority of a search warrant alleging that the company had copies of sensitive documents filed with the Pentagon by archcompetitor General Electric. Both companies were selling engines for the Air Force F-18 fighter and the Navy's V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beltway Bandits at Work In the Pentagon | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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