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Squat, gray and fortress-like, the twelve-year-old U.S. embassy in Bogotá is designed to withstand the most withering of terrorist bomb attacks. The building was put to the test last week: a white Fiat, packed with 33 Ibs. of dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure...
...effective, efforts in forcing attention on the matter. The call by some, though, that the College shut down the club is understandable, but misguided. The right to think and say whatever you want--no matter how despicable--is protected by the Constitution and cannot be abridged by administrative fiat...
...sanctions against the U.S.S.R. and suspended the issuance of licenses for "an expanded List of gas and oil equipment." An official of the Commerce Department went beyond the Letter and intent of the President's policy, interpreting it as being retroactive. Inexplicably, the Administration accepted this bureaucratic fiat. This meant that the sanctions applied equally to items manufactured abroad by subsidiaries of American companies or under American License...
Pininfarina's styling has not been seen in an American auto since he designed the Ambassador and Healey models for the Nash Motor Co. in the early 1950s. His work is far more widely known to car buyers in Europe, where his firm regularly creates models for Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Peugeot. The Rolls-Royce Camargue (list price: $150,600) was designed by Pininfarina, who has also styled every Ferrari built since 1952. His 1946 Cisitalia coupe is the only car on permanent display in New York City's Museum of Modern Art. It was chosen...
While the car idled in the street, the chauffeur operated a remote-control device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...