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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...
...relief agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, which already has aided 55,000 refugees in beginning new lives in the U.S. To help, the Federal Government has increased its resettlement aid from $300 per refugee to as much as $2,000. At Fort Chaffee, the refugees will be given crash English language courses and training in such necessary skills as shopping in American supermarkets. Still, warned David Lewis, who heads the Catholic Conference office at Fort Chaffee, there are no short cuts. Said he: "At the current rate, we will have to continue our work into next year...
...within the next month, according to the official announcement. At the same time the Chinese will dispose of another, even older bit of unfinished business: the 1971 plot in which then Defense Minister Lin Biao allegedly tried to assassinate Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Lin reportedly died in a plane crash after his attempt failed. But now his six coconspirators, who have been jailed for the past nine years, will stand formally accused before a military court...
...hits. But no deafening, jolting crash occurs. On impact, the two cars swing away easily, for they are on casters and covered with polyurethane foam pads. The terrorist threat was not for real, but still there is genuine sweat on the driver's palms. This is part of the final exam given at the BSR Counter-Terrorist Driving School. It is the culmination of a four-day course held at Summit Point, W. Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. Instructor Bill Scott, 42, a Yale Ph.D. in geology and an ex-champion Formula Super Vee race-car driver...
...shooting up an old Buick with a 9-mm machine gun, an automatic pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun so the students will be familiar with the firepower available to the "opposition." Most slugs easily penetrate the side of the car. Then four of the class put on crash helmets and seat belts for an initiation run around the track in one of Scott's four new, high-performance Chevrolet Malibu police cars...