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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wildest allegation so far, an internal report by an investigator for Pan Am's insurance carrier suggests that the CIA unwittingly allowed the bomb aboard Flight 103 to protect a hostage-for-drugs operation. The report states that Monzer al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, was permitted to ship drugs through a "protected" route at Frankfurt in exchange for promises to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The subpoenas filed by Pan Am suggest that the CIA may even have a videotape of the bomb-laden suitcase being loaded in Frankfurt. The CIA and British authorities categorically deny these allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

What did this have to do with now? The fan grew up with rock 'n' roll. He gawped at Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show. He thought Jerry Lee Lewis on Steve Allen's TV program was the wildest and altogether greatest thing he had ever set eyes on. When Chuck Berry showed up on American Bandstand, one young world got jolted into a different orbit. The music was that strong. All velocity and no drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...notion that he was meant to be a playwright. His first work for the stage portrayed a musician asserting his own divinity. What the author remembers most about it is a professor's remark that he plainly knew nothing about creating plays. Undaunted, Hwang succeeded beyond an undergraduate's wildest fantasy with his next try, F.O.B., a reflection on the immigrant experience. Just over a year after the show was staged in his college dorm, it was performed at New York City's pre-eminent off-Broadway showcase, Joseph Papp's Public Theater. That 1980 triumph and the six modestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...with urbanity. But the speculators had built too much too fast. So in 1904 a black real estate agent named Philip A. Payton rented apartments to blacks who were even then being displaced from their midtown homes by the new Pennsylvania Station railyards. The scheme succeeded beyond the speculators' wildest nightmares. By the 1920s, Harlem was mostly black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Welcome To New Harlem! | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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