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...leftover campaign money? Take it with him?" So asked a full-page ad in Chicago's Albany Park News, deep in the district of the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "Who does Representative Mickey Edwards care more about? You and your vote? Or the auto dealers and their money?" So read another ad in the Ponca City, Okla., paper in Republican Edwards' district. Both ended with the same kicker, "Write...
Shortly before 9 p.m., shouts and screams rang out from the crowd. A red 1979 Buick Regal sedan swerved out of the street and onto the sidewalk. Picking up speed, the auto barreled almost a full block at more than 35 m.p.h. The mad driver scattered people "like tenpins," said Ken Jacobs, an eyewitness. "He just mowed them down." The driver stopped only when he slammed into a bus shelter, crushing his car's front end and sending shattered glass into the street...
...snow-covered volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. ("The two monsters," D.H. Lawrence wrote of them, "watching gigantically and terribly over their lofty, bloody cradle of men ... murmuring like two watchful lions.") The thin air not only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce nearly twice as much carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollution. Then, when the city's befouled air rises, the mountains trap it in the virtually permanent smog that now blocks the snowy crests from sight. The 14 million new saplings that the city planted on many streets between...
...spring of 1983 the Women's Presidential Project, coordinated by former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sent questionnaires to all the announced presidential candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered...
DIED. Raymond Patriarca, 76, undisputed godfather of organized crime in New England for a quarter of a century; of a heart attack; in Providence. Despite more than 40 arrests and 18 convictions for crimes including bootlegging, armed robbery, auto theft, and breaking and entering, the Massachusetts-born Patriarca always denied that he was anything but a legitimate vending-machine distributor. Indicted in 1980 and 1981 on charges of labor racketeering and ordering the execution of two underworld figures, he never stood trial because of poor health...