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After Coe was found guilty and sentenced to life plus 75 years, one of the longest sentences ever handed down in the state, his mother became obsessed with revenge. Ruth wanted a hired gun to murder the court officers, but she made the mistake of talking to an undercover policeman playing the part of a Mafia hit man. "I would love to see [the prosecutor] just an addlepated vegetable," she told him. "I mean diapers and all the rest of it...Dead is great. But I do think he should suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victims | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...back as 1980, Trudeau had promised that he would not run in the federal elections that must be held no later than next March. But his retirement nonetheless took the nation by surprise. During nearly 16 years in office, the longest tenure of any contemporary Western leader, Trudeau has become a national institution, whose glitter has given normally staid Canada a certain image of political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A Stroll, a Sauna and au Revoir | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Originally, the 1983 Surface Transportation Act struck down laws in Massachusetts, Connecticut and 11 other states that outlawed the juggernauts, which consist of two 28-foot trailers linked together to make a rig 15 feet longer than the longest single trailers moved to ban the from its roads altogether, Massachusetts's laws restricted 60-feeters to the Turnpike...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Death of the Highways | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

DIED. David, 12, the longest survivor of severe combined immunodeficiency; 15 days after being released from a lifetime of isolation inside a plastic "bubble"; of complications after a bone-marrow transplant; in Houston (see MEDICINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1984 | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...Cooke still broadcasts his "Letter from America," the longest running program in the history of radio aired on the British Broadcasting Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

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