Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machine-gun crew in a hot firefight near the home of Samir Tabet, provost of the American University of Beirut, selected the roof of Tabet's car as a new gun position. Before opening fire, however, they carefully spread newspapers on the roof so the tripod would not scratch the paint...
...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...taken to avoid entrapment. A Chicago undercover man, Joseph Saladino, is perhaps the nation's champion operative in the field. While he says "there's no way I can suggest the crime," he has managed to get hired as, among other things, a hit man, a getaway-car driver and an enforcer-and then to nail his employers with convictions. Most innovative and successful of all have been police-run fencing operations in New York, Chicago and Washington (TIME, March...
...most lucrative place for rent-a-car companies to be is in airports. Needing ground transport, plane passengers account for about 70% of the $700 million in annual auto rentals. Last year however, the Federal Trade Commission charged that 96% of all airport car-rental income went to the three largest companies-Hertz, Avis and National -so the FTC sued the Big Three, accusing them of conspiring to freeze competitors out of airports. The Commission claimed that their rates were 10% to 40% higher than smaller firms...
Since the antitrust suit was filed, the Big Three have adjusted their prices to meet those of smaller competitors. In addition, FTC officials say, there has been a "fantastic" increase in the number of small car-rental companies that are winning concession rights in airports. Nonetheless, if the FTC finds reason to think that the Big Three are restricting competition at any time, it has a quick remedy. The new order includes a provision that forbids them to conspire to monopolize the business even outside airports-or face civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation...