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Fame is a fickle dame. Nick Matzorkis, who helped discover the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members and finagled that into a TV development deal with ABC, now has to cope with her nastier side. Matzorkis was jailed last week for an alleged probation violation for auto theft in Cleveland. Ohio authorities recognized him on TV. His publicist told the Los Angeles Times that the TV deal would not be affected...
...whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, whose daughter was tragically killed in an auto accident in 1993, opposed repeal of the federal 55-m.p.h. speed limit last year. And columnist George Will, who derides mushy liberal programs, has written movingly in support of government programs that help his son, who has Down syndrome...
...year-old workhorses such as Buick Centurys and Chevrolet Corsicas and underpricing the competition. The company also went on a brutal cost-cutting crusade throughout its production system, beating up suppliers for price rebates and consolidating 27 separate purchasing organizations into one worldwide group that "commonized" such once disparate auto components as braking, air-conditioning and radio systems. Under the new purchasing program, for example, instead of buying 123 different steering columns, GM will stock 50. The company can still produce totally different cars. For instance, by using styling feats, suspension adjustments and electronic legerdemain, GM can produce a crouched...
...authorities went out of their way to deny reports that Markhasev has links to the Russian mafia, which has been a growing presence in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, or to immigrant auto-theft rings that target luxury cars. Police released a man and a woman, who had been brought in for questioning last week, and say they are not looking for additional suspects. Meanwhile, the sole witness at the crime scene reportedly viewed a lineup last week, the results of which have not been made public...
...Ballard meets her at the hospital, and in a trice they are having urgent sex in an airport garage. The doctor tells of her other sexcapades in cars: "They felt like traffic accidents." She loves making love to men with scars; to her, each wound is an orifice, and auto eroticism is an aphrodisiac. It is more--a sacrament--to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), whose obsession with celebrity crashes has made him a priest of the car cult. He seeks immortality in heavy-metal scrapes with death...