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...Super Vee race-car driver, started the course in 1976 after the Air Force asked him to provide driver training for some of its officers. Since then, Scott and three other instructors, backed by a team of mechanics, have trained hundreds of chauffeurs and corporation executives in how to foil attempts to kill or capture them on the road. The basic course, including films and lectures plus actual driving, costs...
...near paralysis of government that forced the military's hand. With Demirel unable to muster a majority in parliament and with Ecevit anxious to foil him at every turn, the legislature has not been able to enact a law for at least six months. Its efforts to elect a new President have stretched unsuccessfully-and somewhat comically-over more than 100 ballots. Even a package of antiterrorist measures supported by both men has sunk into the partisan quicksand. Demirel's right-center party could probably win a majority if Turks went to the polls tomorrow, but Ecevit...
...studded along the frontier within sight of each other monitor every yard of the fence and the barren strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...
...residents of Ajo, where the survivors were taken, are normally indifferent to the plight of aliens, but they collected money for the Salvadorans. The Legal Aid Society plans to go to court to foil any plans by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to expel them, and Arizona's Senator Dennis DeConcini asked the Administration to permit the aliens to live in the country that they had tried so desperately to make their home...
DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls...