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Money poured in from the Hare Krishnas who worked the crowds in airports and at rock concerts. Hubner and Gruson are convinced that drug smuggling was another major source of income. One of the dealers was Charles St. Denis, who, the authors say, was killed for, among other things, withholding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Hustle, Bad Karma MONKEY ON A STICK | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

A few defectors, particularly central Asians with a genuine commitment to Islam and an antipathy toward European Russians, have reportedly actually taken up arms on the mujahedin side. Almost to a man, the POWs who talked to TIME denied any desire to return to their homeland after the war. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisoners And Converts | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

The concept it was clever, the execution A-OK.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joy in Beantown | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

As for the allegation that the court is soft on crime, her backers claim it has sided with the prosecution 90% of the time. Then why has no execution yet taken place in California during her tenure? Bird blames the fuzzy language of the state's 1978 death-penalty initiative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Shaking the Judicial Perch: Rose Bird | 9/15/1988 | See Source »

But engineering elegance cannot mask what may turn out to be fatal problems in conception and execution. Jobs' original idea was to use mass-production techniques to make the power of $50,000 computer "workstations" like those used by top engineers and industrial designers available to anyone for the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Case of the Missing Machine | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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