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NO Comment A Heartbeat Away Vice President Dan Quayle, addressing a meeting of the United Negro College Fund, tried to invoke that organization's slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."...
...A nine-inch segment costs $38...
...Then he lined up four of the youngsters against a garage door, pressed his cocked revolver to the back of one youth's neck, and threatened to "blow your head across the lawn...
...He said he specialized in "overt" Army operations for eighteen years, which meant, he explained, "I was under cover...
...Wayne Sharpe sharing a short message on 'Qualities of a Christian Marriage.' " The Flush off Embarrassment Police employees in Concord, California, have filed a $30 million lawsuit against the city because a video camera was secretly placed in the police station's men's room...
...More Military Intelligence Timothy Reid, a Navy electronics engineer who tried to blow the whistle on wasteful practices at the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering Center in San Diego, was fired by the Center's commander, Captain Stephen Howard...
...They should be hung...
...He was acquitted...
...The American Way When The News and Times of Warrensburg, New York, asked local residents, "What should happen to people who burn the flag...
...So she took a knife and, according to The Washington Post, chopped "about an inch" from the offending organ...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Frontiers off Free Enterprise The Trend Connection, an Austrian firm, is marketing pieces of the barbed-wire fence that was recently pulled down along the border between Austria and Hungary...
...They're mostly communists anyway, so why aren't they in Russia...
...Military Intelligence Chic Hecht, former Republican Senator from Nevada and new U.S...
...Small Is Beautiful Rita Bartolo, director of the Bluemont Park Sculpture Project in Arlington County, Virginia, was apprehensive about possible adverse public reaction to the size of the genitalia on a reclining male figure commissioned for the show...
...Probable Cause Timothy Allman, an off-duty District of Columbia police officer, broke up a shaving-cream fight among teen-agers in the suburban Maryland neighborhood where he lives...
...these were among the answers: "They should get fined or sent to jail...
...The department was trying to find out who was clogging a urinal with toilet paper...
...They should be assassinated...
...According to the Center's newsletter, "The Naval Investigative Service and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit arrived, took possession of the package, X-rayed it several times, and in their best judgment did not think that the package contained an explosive device...
...It contained Engineering Contracts and Specifications, a handbook Reid had borrowed from the Center's library and was trying to return...
...Said the Navy, "In these times of heightened terrorist activity, we cannot be too cautious...
...June 20 at the Assembly of God Church____The theme will be 'A Bridal Affair,' featuring modeling of past and present wedding gowns...
...If I wanted to send a bomb," Reid mused, "why in the world would I send it return-receipt requested...
...Come as You Are Under a $2.9 million Federal drug-fighting grant, members of the Texas National Guard will be placed along the Mexican border disguised as cactus plants...
...After being charged with assault, Allman admitted at a jury trial that he had overreacted, but explained that his language and conduct would have been "more appropriate in the ghetto...
...That flag means a lot to me...
...Music and a wedding ceremony of'Ken and Barbie' will highlight this affair, with Rev...
...Then he tried again: "Or not to have a mind is very wasteful...
...Poor Baby Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, after her arrest for violating traffic laws and slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills, California: "You just cannot drive a Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills anymore because they have it in for you...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Nonetheless, the Navy "thought it was best to open it under controlled conditions," so it pulverized the package with a high-powered water cannon...
...Explained the County's cultural-affairs director, Norma Kaplan, "We never suspected that the male would have genitals...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...ambassador to the Bahamas, was inducted into the Army Intelligence Hall of Fame...
...Church Notes from All Over News item from Western World, published in Ban-don, Oregon: "The Bandon Assembly of God Ladies will present a joy fellowship at 7 p.m...
...Anyone who has so little respect for the flag of our country ought to be drawn and quartered...
...So when Howard received a small package bearing Reid's return address, Navy security sprang into action...
...What a waste it is to lose one's mind," said Quayle...
Vol. 53 • September 1989 • No. 9
