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...Yorkers, inured to their city's escalating violence, were shocked: four children dead just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Veronica Corales, 9, was asleep in her parents' car. Yaritima Fruto, 1, was sitting in her mother's lap in an auto stopped in traffic. Ben Williams, 3, was asleep in his family's apartment. Rayvon Jamison, 9 months, was playing in a walker in his grandmother's kitchen. In a span of nine days, all were struck by random shots fired from 9-mm semiautomatic pistols, which have become the favorite weapon...
...Northern Ireland. Although Gow's name was on a hit list of some 100 persons, the M.P. continued to give his address and number in the phone book. Under the cover of darkness, police deduced, a 4 1/2-lb. Semtex charge was attached to the bottom of Gow's auto while it was parked outside his 16th century home in the village of Hankham, in Sussex, 60 miles from London. The bomb exploded seconds after Gow got behind the wheel to drive to call on a constituent...
...angered Big Business, alienated much of the middle class, and invited the risk of a major recession. He has also provoked the wrath of Big Labor, as evidenced last week by strikes at a state-run steel plant outside Rio de Janeiro and at the main Ford auto factory near Sao Paulo. Now Collor must scramble to reaffirm his popular mandate, while at the same time staving off public demands to push his rigorous program off track. Can he do it? Warns Brazilian political scientist Walter de Goes: "The speciality of this economic team is detonating bombs, not picking...
...draw battle lines on a blank slate. While there is ample evidence of the quality of Souter's intellect -- magna cum laude Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, Harvard law -- most of his judicial experience has been on New Hampshire's state supreme court, which is more likely to consider auto- insurance cases and commercial litigation than divisive social issues like abortion and affirmative action. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston only last April, Souter has not yet participated in any of its decisions...
...male tank-top, tattoo and feed-cap set in the rural South, stock-car racing is now going nationwide and upscale. This year more than 3 million fans in 16 states from Florida to Michigan to California will attend 29 races staged by the National Association of Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from 25% eight years ago. Televised coverage of this year's Daytona 500, the biggest race of the nine-month circuit, drew a higher...