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Goode and others described the bomb dropped from a helicopter as an "entry device." Aside from the fact that some cop appears to have loaded the bomb with extra explosive above and beyond the call of sanity, the idea of using a small explosive just to gain entry is strategically sound. If it had worked, if it had dislodged the armored bunker on top of the row house, the whole thing might have ended a swift, successful anti-terrorist strike...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Goode's Jury | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson didn't even win the ECAC Championship, although the team entered the tournament as the top seed and favorite to cop its second title in four years. A shocking loss to Clarkson in the semifinals, and Harvard came out third...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: An Armful of Silver Platters | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

With the 5-2 lead inching up to 6-2 on a Brown line-drive round-tripper in the bottom of the sixth, however, Rubin had all the offensive support necessary to cop her first victory of the season...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Batswomen Knock Off B.U., 6-2, in Home Opener | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...previous roles, Lido (Lee) Iacocca has mostly been the tough-talking star of his own Chrysler commercials. But last week on NBC's designer cop show, Miami Vice, the gung-ho CEO was back in the thespian driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 31, 1986 | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...carriers are Ronald Reagan's big stick of intimidation against Middle East terrorism. With a dozen support ships around each carrier and 70 to 85 planes soaring off each ship, the biggest threat to the fleet seems to be a midair or midsea collision. "We'll need a traffic cop," jokes a Pentagon official. The Saratoga should return to the U.S. in April. Still, this effort to impress Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi is not cheap: operating a carrier at sea costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: Carrying a Big Stick | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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