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...Hambali ran out of time. Last Monday night a fleet of bronze sedans carrying about two dozen Thai Special Branch police forces pulled up near the six-story Boon Yarak apartment building in Ayutthaya. A U.S. official says the Thai authorities were acting on at least two forms of intelligence provided by the CIA. Intelligence officers in the region pinpointed Hambali's location after intercepting a cell-phone call placed to an operative in Indonesia. At 10:30 p.m. on Monday, the Thai forces knocked on Hambali's door and then smashed the lock and stormed inside. A college student...
...Worcester resident reported that on Aug. 8 someone went to the Fleet Bank located at 615 Concord Avenue (Fresh Pond), forged his signature and withdrew $2,200 from his savings account...
Kahan recommends preferred shares (yielding 6% to 8%) of bank companies, including Fleet Financial and HSBC, and of real estate investment trusts, including Vornado Realty and Health Care Properties. He likes junk-bond mutual funds, including Columbia High Yield and Northeast Investors. He also favors short-maturity bond funds (which yield just north of 1%) like Vanguard Short-Term Bond. Bank CDs are another alternative to money-market funds. Keep a mix of CDs that come due in three, six, 12 and 18 months. You can get 2% on a three-year CD, but you'll run the risk...
...gasoline conservation was working, aided by a nasty recession, one energy forecast after another anticipated ever better mileage. The American Petroleum Institute, swept up by auto-industry fervor, announced in September 1981 that "forecasts of fuel efficiency for new cars now exceed those mandates (27.5 m.p.g.), suggesting an industry-fleet average of 30 m.p.g. by 1985." Not exactly: this year the average is still 27.5 m.p.g. for vehicles officially labeled as passenger cars, but for the entire fleet of vehicles, including SUVs and trucks, it is much worse. The best overall fuel economy of 22.1 m.p.g. (for U.S.-made vehicles...
...Meanwhile, back at Kai Tak, David England still works in an office in Kowloon Bay that overlooks the old airport's runway. From his window he can see a fleet of double-deckers in a Kowloon Motor Bus livery, on the site where Concordes used to park. "That," he sighs, "is not really the same...