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...City and Redondo Beach have been empowered to confiscate big speakers installed in autos to make them what are known as "boom cars." Says officer Michael Harlan of National City: "If we hear a boom car 50 ft. or more away on a public street, we can cite the driver...
...soon as a tourist steps onto the replica of a Montgomery bus, a prerecorded voice will emanate from the vicinity of the mannequin behind the wheel. "All right, you folks, I want those two seats," the facsimile driver will say. "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those two seats." In the middle of the bus, a plaster of Paris simulacrum of Rosa Parks will just sit there, a mute symbol of the incident that sparked the epic Montgomery bus boycott. "Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat!" the mock voice...
...free-market reform program pressed by Prime Minister Markovic was undermined by Serbia, whose leadership still suffers from a communist hangover. After last week's hostilities, Slovenes see only more evidence of wastage of their hard-earned dinars. "We bought them tanks and guns," says Franci Mavric, a taxicab driver in Sezana. "Now they want to kill us with them...
Document specialists obtain clean driver's licenses and car registrations. In 1989 the FBI and New York City prosecutors cracked a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles were taking bribes of $100 to write phony registration papers. Hundreds of falsely documented cartel vehicles, fitted with hidden compartments, moved drugs north from Mexico and returned south with cash...
Overcome by a sudden urge two weeks ago to buy rare stamps, Sununu ordered the driver of his government-paid limousine to drive him 225 miles to New York City. He spent the day -- and nearly $5,000 -- at an auction room at Christie's. Then he dismissed the driver, who motored back to Washington with no passengers. Sununu returned on a private jet owned by Beneficial Corp...