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...than 1 million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with 14 tons in the same period a year earlier. Sixteen suspected cartel traffickers have been captured and shipped to the U.S., and one of the most notorious kingpins, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, has been killed...
...boasts more than 2,400 amateur teams and some 100,000 players. But support for the Minnesota North Stars, the state's poorly performing National Hockey League team, is so frigid that owners George and Gordon Gund are threatening to move the money-losing franchise to Oakland or San Jose unless civic officials spend $15 million to install sky boxes and other improvements in the team's aging arena in suburban Minneapolis...
Live performances also provide the chance to make musical history. Singer Jose Feliciano ensured his place in the anthem hall of fame after his bluesy Latin interpretation at the 1968 World Series in Detroit, ending the song with "Oh, yeah." RCA Records pressed a single of it the next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
...vulnerability of all computer systems was underscored last week by separate court proceedings in California and New York. In San Jose three Silicon Valley workers were indicted for a range of computer crimes, including, for perhaps the first time, taking classified military information from Government computers. The next day a Cornell University graduate student made the first public explanation of how the rogue program he released into a research network in November 1988 managed to cripple some 6,000 university and military computers. "It was a mistake," Robert Morris said at his federal trial in Syracuse. "I'm sorry...