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...started out as a nationwide protest against higher fuel taxes and highway-user fees for trucks. But within hours, violence eclipsed the issues. Shortly after 11 p.m. on the first day of the Independent Truckers Association (ITA) strike, George Franklin Capps, 34, a Teamster driver, lay slumped in the cab of his 18-wheeler on Route 701, north of tiny Newton Grove, N.C., fatally shot in the neck by a sniper. "The strike is the last thing we talked about," recalled his widow Esmond. "I told him to be careful...
During their review, congressional leaders are considering ways to cut defense allocations and at the same time upgrade job prospects for the unemployed in the form of a $5 billion program, which would supplement the $4.5 billion highway jobs program enacted last month...
Meanwhile, in the desert near Palm Springs, Calif., at the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, where Hubbard once stalked the sands wearing a cowboy hat, cursing and yelling as he directed Scientology films, security is tight. Guards at the Gilman retreat scrutinize cars moving along a highway past a black iron gate, and security men range amid the cactus, chattering into walkie-talkies. There is a sign that says GOLDEN ERA STUDIOS. The only visible reminder of the former presence is a bronze plaque on a replica of a ship's deck. It is dedicated...
...eroding vision of football magazines as pillars of pure fun and games blurs completely when their advertising is examined. Only a few magazines carry entire sections on gambling, although The Professor's edition even carries a page of where-to-bet recommendations. (Harrah's Sports Book on "Highway 50 at Stateline, Nevada" receives high marks.) But nearly all the journals have reams of ads for gambling advice...
...second largest city. In an especially gruesome incident, the throat of a 71-year-old farmer was slit ear to ear. Only days earlier, a pack of 15 to 20 armed men wearing green camouflage uniforms and animal-skin caps had halted traffic on the Bulawayo-Gweru Highway, spraying buses and cars with gunfire and then torching three of the vehicles. Three blacks died, and 21 were injured...