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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Billy Davis of Smithville, Ark. (pop. 113), expected the worst when half a dozen police cars converged on his mountain hamlet 125 miles northeast of Little Rock late last Friday afternoon. "They weren't talking," said Davis, "so I knew something was about to happen." The officials, including four state troopers, a dozen federal marshals and FBI agents, the sheriff and three deputies, headed four miles north of town and set up roadblocks. Then they drove a mile down a dirt road to an isolated house that resembled a bunker. There, the nationwide search for Gordon W. Kahl...
...consequence of this approach, the psychologists are quick to acknowledge, it that they can not judge the truthfulness of their subjects memories. "We're calling this memory but we weren't there at the time the events occured, so we have no check on the veracity of what we're getting," says Pillemer. "One of the appeals of the laboratory is that you can control what goes in and therefore you can look at what comes out and look at the match between...
...Things just weren't moving at Padan Aram, and I came along and had some good ideas," he says. The magazine's publication last month marked its first appearance in more than a year...
This was the team of destiny, the one with seven seniors who weren't satisfied with their second Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title. Here was a team that had conquered bad breaks much of the year and felt sure it could do what was necessary to win a Northeastern crown and a trip to the College World Series in Omaha...
...volume of calls has caught us by surprise," says Dr. Mark Gold, director of the hot line. "We had thought there were between 100,000 and 200,000 seriously dependent people in the U.S. The amount of calls indicates that the number may be much higher." If it weren't for the fear of getting arrested, the number of people using the hot line would probably be even greater. "They are so suspicious," says Gold. "They ask if the FBI is listening on the line or if their names will be turned over to the police...