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When Captain Muñoz and his troops set up their coup headquarters in the National Plaza on Tuesday morning, their demands were clear. They planned to hold new elections in 60 days and to bar military men from running for office. They hoped to weed out official corruption, turn over power to a new civilian government and get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: The Coup That Got Away | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Only in Alaska may a person possess a small amount of marijuana. Yet almost anywhere in the nation it is possible to find stores selling pipes and other gear with which to enjoy the illicit weed. Called head shops ("head" is slang for a frequent drug user), they number about 15,000 and do an estimated $2 billion in annual business. But after an 8-to-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week, high times could turn into hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Head-Shop Low | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...dark wood to a dark, dark house, up dark, dark stairs . . . Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. The book's mysterious power is engendered by the illustrations of weed-choked gardens and abandoned, echoing halls, of mullioned windows and blowing curtains-a child's portion of gothica, easy on the frissons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World Charged with Miracles | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Quietly, (How else would something occur in accordance with tennis etiquette) this earlier tension created by wielders of the weed killers has died and anybody worth a mishit is converting...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Making Headway: A Prince Turns King | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

...what make him tick. He only became an actor because, "all the chicks I liked were doing [theater]" in high school. And he only pursued it as a career because he despised school too much to follow up his high SATs. So the drifting head went to California, smoking weed and politicking his way up from a mail clerk job by greeting MGM execs by their first name...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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