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...group is also pushing for a new federal licensing system for all purchases of explosives. Such licensing is now required only when explosives are shipped across state lines. Dozens of truck-safety requirements mandated by Congress have been overlooked in the past few years by federal regulators, says longtime highway-safety advocate Joan Claybrook. "They really haven't paid attention" to trucks, she says. Perhaps they will...
Howie Blitzer is a pie-faced Long Island (L.I.) urchin who quotes L.I. luminary Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also...
...shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. Nuclear waste is disposed of there, and weapons are restocked with tritium. Authorities closed down a highway that runs through the base, until the FBI gave the all clear. But Bryant and his frightened neighbors still don't know what happened that night. Utility-industry analysts say Catawba was subject to a security test, but the feds won't confirm anything. "It's like it never happened...
...COLOMBIA Highway Kidnap Consuelo Araujo, a former culture minister and the wife of Colombia's attorney-general, was kidnapped at a roadblock near Valledupar, 675 km north of Bogotá, along with 10 traveling companions. Police suspect that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which demands huge ransoms to help finance its insurgency, was responsible...
...before our forces could have completely enveloped the Iraqi Republican Guard. And why did he do this? Because 100 hours is a nice round number. The government succeeded in putting a media spin on even its war tactics. The media also devoted much coverage to the “Highway of Death,” and graphically showed the American public the scale of the carnage our forces delivered to the Iraqis. And yet the Republican Guard escaped virtually unscathed because former President Bush ended the war early for fear of alienating the American public by killing more Iraqis...