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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal raised hackles among safety advocates and their traditional foes, the Big Three automakers in Detroit. "It's bad public policy," says Joan Claybrook, who led the NHTSA in the Carter Administration and now runs the watchdog group Public Citizen. "For the government to tell people it is O.K. to disconnect their air bags is a terrible idea that sends the wrong signal." Claybrook blames Washington and the car manufacturers for failing to instruct the public in basic matters such as never allowing small children to ride in front seats and wearing seat belts to make the air bags most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR-BAG-SAFETY SAGA | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...battle of a simple country girl against a phalanx of church elders, the debate of passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GOING ALL THE WAY | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...JOAN FITZ-GERALD (D) District 6 (Denver suburbs--Aurora; Lakewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: COLORADO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...JOAN HORN (D) District 2 (Western St. Louis County; eastern St. Charles County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MISSOURI | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

BORN: April 26, 1945, Washington EDUCATION: Harvard U, B.A., 1967; U of Michigan, M.A., 1971, Ph.D., 1978 FAMILY: Wife, Joan; four children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Army, 1967-70 OCCUPATION: Newspaper publisher POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 641 East Baltimore Pike, Kennett Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: PENNSYLVANIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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