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State police Lt. Joseph Barber said Saturday that authorities considered it likely that Therrien had obtained a weapon...
...convicted of two counts of murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to murder...
...been a strange year for American movies. The most popular films of 1987 have a dark hue: violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan...
...Government may not hawk goods like a job-lot auction house, but it is becoming quite a bargain hunter. Across the U.S., law-enforcement officials are enthusiastically confiscating property acquired through criminal activity or used in committing crimes. Such seizures have become a major police weapon for squeezing crooks, especially drug dealers. During fiscal 1986, federal marshals handled $550 million in confiscated cash and property under 130 laws, a fivefold increase since...
Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," Baker predicted that Gorbachev would move forward on strategic-weapon cuts "perhaps without requiring as a precondition that the president abandon SDI or reduce SDI or postpone SDI, which he's not going...