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...Khitrichenko, 48, a senior engineer in the economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
...panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
...head for the robust UCIA beauty. Since Alison is on her way to swap law articles with her similarly situated boy friend, the pair end up hitching their way to California together, a la It Happened One Night. Somewhere between playing a madman psychotic to scare a lecherous truck driver off of Alison and trying to identify the three categories of junk food. John Cusack manages to make the film into a showcase for his improvisational comedy talent...
...stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl in Photo." "Frat Guy," "Pick-up Driver," or "Bus Station Bum" are not characters: they are nothing more than props for Reiner's comedic mind, no realer than a red nose or floppy feet...
Police said there were jimmy marks on the driver's side and windows of the car and cited the possibility that a "slim jim"--a device similar to the instrument used to open a car when the keys are locked inside--was used in the break...