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...gruesome shooting and slashing rampage in Sonoma County, Calif., two weeks ago that left seven people dead and terrorized residents. Among the victims were Salcido's wife and two daughters, ages 4 and 1. A third daughter, 3, barely survived a throat slitting. Suspecting that Salcido might flee to his native country, U.S. officials alerted Mexican authorities, who caught him at a railroad station near Los Mochis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Them Back to Justice | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...flirts brazenly with her father's valet, Jean (Daniel Hurewitz), in front of Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both, and in their argument over how to escape their predicament, each tries to drag the other through the slime of ultimate degradation...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...confronted by a reality that has become commonplace for less exalted residents of Washington. Only six blocks from the gleaming Capitol dome, the Oregon Republican watched as a man 20 yards ahead of him blasted away with a gun at another man. Hatfield zoomed through a red light to flee the scene. He did not call the police. "I assure you if in Washington you tell the police you saw somebody shooting somebody, they'd say, 'So what?' " Hatfield explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Place for A Test Case | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...elude detection by local authorities, these operations usually solicit only out-of-state targets. On rare occasions local officials are alerted by complaints from distant victims and manage to track the money trail back to the boiler room. But the crooks typically flee across state lines and start all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reach Out And Rob Someone | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...students were right calling for Atwater's resignation. Though most Republicans are hardly bigoted, the Republican Party has been attracting an increasing number of white racists as they flee the Democratic Party. The results of this flight were recently demonstrated when Ex-Klansman and Nazi David Duke was elected to the Louisiania state legislature as a Republican. Although Atwater and the party's executive committee voted to censure him, it's telling that Duke says he feels at home in the party...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Race and the G.O.P. | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

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