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...HAVE here is across between Road Warrior and Decline of Western Civilization a fact which is readily apparent about ten minutes into Repo Man. The Road Warrior bit opens the show as the film begins with a deranged scientist named J. Frank Parnell streaking down a barren L. A. highway in a 6-4 Chevy Malibu A policeman sets off after him on a motorcycle, pulls him to the side of the road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing...
...standards of megalopolitan Los Angeles. Early in the morning, Pasadena police cornered two terrorists in a catering office at the Rose Bowl, site of the Olympic soccer matches. A traffic snarl brought two major freeways to a steamy standstill, and a landslide smothered a chunk of the Pacific Coast Highway. During the Olympic cycling event, a section of bleachers at the Dominguez Hills velodrome collapsed, injuring 50 people. By day's end Angelenos had survived a bomb scare and a raging brushfire...
...plans to beef up its local cadre of agents from 400 to 550 and send in its newly formed 50-member hostage-rescue team. The California Highway Patrol will fatten its regional 1,200-member force by 800 officers and 250 cars to help escort athletes in buses and dignitaries in 5 motorcades as they cross various county lines. In addition, 600 Secret Service agents and about 175 bodyguards from the State Department's Office of Security will hover around 3 heads of state, foreign luminaries and their families throughout the Games...
...subjective" legal judgments. But Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz wrote that society has now decided it must "do whatever is required ... to stop the senseless loss inflicted by drunken drivers." Washington seems to agree. Last week Congress approved and sent to the President a bill that will cut federal highway funds for states that do not adopt a minimum drinking...
...drinking age, supporters contend, would save as many as 1,250 of the 5,000 teen-age lives lost each year in auto accidents caused by intoxication, and would also cut into the toll of some 20,000 older drunken-driving victims. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety of accident patterns in nine states that raised the drinking age shows an average 28% drop in fatal nighttime crashes involving under-21 age groups. Polls show 77% of Americans favor a drinking age of 21. Sums up New Jersey Congressman James Florio: "The 21-year-old drinking...