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...tobacco industry is far from being the nation's largest advertiser: last year it spent only $872 million on ads, in contrast to $2.9 billion by food and food-product companies and $2.7 billion by the auto industry, and it accounted for 9% of magazines' advertising revenue and 1% of newspapers'. The A.M.A.'s proposed ban was immediately criticized not only by advertising and publishing-industry groups but by the American Civil Liberties Union and most First Amendment scholars, who believe that the proposal may be hazardous to the Constitution. "While the Government has an interest in preserving the health...
Prosecutors argued that the exchange had been taped not to obtain evidence in the theft case but to investigate Moulton's alleged threat to kill a government witness. The evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other...
...jumped him. Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice consul...
...Georgetown (pop. 11,000), a center of Burley tobacco farming and Thoroughbred horse breeding, Toyota has found a site close to auto-parts suppliers, a crucial consideration for Japanese firms striving to keep a low level of inventories. In addition, the town's central U.S. location will allow Toyota to keep down delivery costs. Finally, the area offers inexpensive and plentiful electricity and easy access to two interstate highways...
Predictably, the citizens of Georgetown are of two minds about Toyota's move. Where some residents see problems, others see possibilities. Craig Zeysing, 72, and his wife Helen, 60, who own three farms in the area, acknowledge the benefits of new jobs but fear that a large auto plant will change the nature of their little town. On the other hand, the Zeysing's son Herbert, 27, who looks after 65 head of cattle on one of the family's farms, smells opportunity. He has advised his parents to "listen before they say no" to speculators who express interest...