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Rault repaid the entire sum and was never prosecuted -- even though he was also suspected of trying to kill a co-worker who he thought had turned him in. The brakes on the man's car were cut while he and his family were attending church. Nevertheless, Rault managed to keep news of the embezzlement from his family when he returned to New Orleans and was hired at LEDCO...
...licensing of souvenirs; such efforts in the past, in Britain and on the Pope's 1979 U.S. visit, not only caused some controversy but also failed to produce as much income as expected. Private enterprisers, however, are not holding back. The bevy of kitschy papal souvenirs include Pope-shaped car air fresheners, Pope-on-a-rope soap, Pope Scopes -- actually periscope-like cardboard boxes with reflectors that allow viewers to see above crowds -- and "Holey See" masks, which are cutouts of the papal visage complete with miter...
...photographer and a reporter, but there was widespread speculation that the toll was much higher. As many as 265 people were wounded. The President was unharmed, and the rebels reportedly never got close to her house, but her only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27, was seriously wounded. Caught in his car with four bodyguards during the shooting, the young Aquino was saved from death by a companion who threw himself across Noynoy's body. Three of the four guards were killed. Aquino was hit in the shoulder and neck, but is expected to survive...
Such an oversight is almost unthinkable: a takeoff without extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...
...Radical "proletarian shoppers" help themselves to supermarket goods, frequently with impunity. Even Christian Democratic Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, who presides over a center-right coalition government, has been touched by crime. Twice within the past year, Lubbers has chased down men who broke into his wife's car and held them until the police arrived...