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...there were as many potential John Doe No. 2s as clowns tumbling out of a circus car. An Australian tourist in Ontario was dragged from his car at gunpoint and questioned for four hours by authorities; a hitchhiker was detained in Ohio; a man driving through Georgia in a BMW with Oklahoma plates was stopped by a local sheriff's deputy. The most colorful detainees, Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks -- two drifters whose travels mysteriously paralleled McVeigh's in the days before the bombing -- were arrested on Tuesday in Carthage, Missouri, and released 18 hours later. "They were morons...
...continues with meetings until a BMW takes him to the President's official residence for a luncheon with Sydney Mufamadi, the Safety and Security Minister. After discussing security issues over spiced chicken livers, Mandela changes into a charcoal suit and is back at the office in the Union Buildings by 3 p.m. There he attends the swearing in of the new Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Brigitte Mabandla. For the second time in a matter of weeks, she will be replacing Mandela's estranged wife Winnie, who was fired from the job, won it back and then...
Against that surreal backdrop, the rest of Haiti seems to be holding its breath. Despite the apocalyptic fears of the BMW-and-beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will...
...turned them into grownups. "They don't carry the same label of suburban domesticity as our vans do," says Chrysler vice president Bernard Robertson, general manager of the company's light truck and Jeep division. "We get letters all the time saying, 'I've got a Mercedes or BMW, but I always drive the Jeep...
...much as $40,000 when the first one arrives by 1998. It will square off against a Mercedes-Benz model that the German company will build in Vance, Alabama, and plans to sell for as much as $60,000 when production begins in 1997. Not to be outdone, BMW roared into the market in February by paying $1.2 billion for an 80% stake in Britain's Rover, whose sports-utility vehicles include the $52,000 Range Rover County and the $29,000 Discovery; both arrived in the U.S. in April. (Rover expects to introduce a more luxurious version...