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...only celebrity writer: by dangling salaries reportedly ranging up to $250,000, the National has gathered a 130-member editorial staff that includes columnists Mike Lupica from the New York Daily News and Dave Kindred from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as editors from the Boston Globe and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Boasts Deford: "We will offer the finest collection of writers ever assembled at one daily...
...Fort Lauderdale the racket from a boom car is illegal if it can be heard beyond 50 ft. from the vehicle. In California a similar law went into effect Jan. 1. Car-stereo merchants seem to think customers will have just as much fun without pumping the volume to law-breaking -- not to mention earsplitting -- levels. Remarks Stephen Seidl of Fort Lauderdale's Speaker Warehouse: "We advise our clients not to abuse the power...
...military involvement in the drug crusade has been growing within the U.S. A joint military task force in Fort Bliss, Texas, has assigned 100 Army and Marine troops to support civilian agencies that patrol the border with Mexico. While the troops are not expected to engage smugglers, the danger was dramatized last month when four Marines working with Border Patrol officers near Nogales, Ariz., got into a nighttime firefight with drug traffickers on horseback. The smugglers fled, abandoning 573 lbs. of marijuana. No Marines were hurt...
...kennel seemed an odd venue for a watershed event in U.S. military history. But when members of the 988th Military Police Company from Fort Benning, Ga., engaged Panamanian soldiers in a firefight at an attack-dog compound near Panama City, the American platoon was commanded by a woman: Captain Linda L. Bray, 29, of Butner, N.C. Bray, one of 771 Army women who took part in the Panama operation, had added a page to the annals of American warfare: for the first time women, who compose almost 11% of the U.S. armed forces, had engaged hostile troops in modern combat...
During their first, crucial day in Panama, the reporters were kept for several hours in a windowless room at Fort Clayton and treated to a tedious, history-laden briefing. Nor were things much better once the poolers were allowed into the sunlight. "To the extent we got any news at all," Komarow says, "it was pretty much by accident." He notes, for example, that the pool did witness looting in Panama City, but only when their military driver lost his way. Exposure to actual combat was also a matter of chance, as when Noriega forces attacked the Southern Command...