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...group of youths, including Explorer Scouts from a troop taught and sponsored by IBM in Milwaukee, used their home computers to penetrate a dozen computers in the U.S. and Canada. Included were Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N. Mex., both of which insisted that no real harm had been done. As of last week, all that the ten young people, ages 15 to 22, had set off was an FBI investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Games | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving as an Army technician at Los Alamos, N. Mex., he had given Julius rough sketches of the implosion device used to trigger the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Invitation to a Bad Time | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their way into the hands of John Connally, 66. Now in partnership with Forrest Fenn, owner of a gallery in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the onetime Governor of Texas and presidential hopeful wants to sell off some of his acquisitions. Price: $12,000 to $15,000 apiece. After all, argues Fenn, "If they're as good as real, then what the hell are we talking about? I mean, what is art?" A question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 15, 1983 | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

After arriving by U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, the leaders of the West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing It Loose at the Summit | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...intensified police pressure seems to be pushing big-league traffic north and west from Miami. Last year in New Iberia, La., federal agents found nearly 1,200 lbs. of cocaine in two dozen gunny sacks that were supposed to be filled with cattle feed. Near Santa Rosa, N. Mex., duffel bags packed with 200 lbs. of coke were tossed out of a plane onto the wrong patch of scrubland and found by a state policeman. The same thing happened near Ellijay, Ga., when, police gathered up more than 500 lbs. of coke in duffel bags that had been dropped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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