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...Union, South Carolina, a town that last October earned its own pin on the map of American crime, the rage at Susan Smith's actions has gradually given way to more complex emotions. People are still appalled by the way she let her Mazda slide off a boat ramp into the waters of John D. Long Lake with her young sons Michael and Alex strapped into their car seats. They are still outraged at the ease with which she convinced the world that she was the grieving victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty...
...with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children. But I can't even afford to send my daughter to the dentist for a cavity." Terri...
...Hanshin area around Kobe feared at first they had been grievously wounded. The quake halted production at two of Kobe Steel's plants, but one of them went back into operation last week, and the other will be shut down for only a month or so. Toyota and Mazda, expecting no deliveries of parts from the Kobe area, closed several auto plants, then reopened them because supplies arrived...
...twenties, wearing a plaid jacket and jeans and waving a gun, out of breath as though he had been running, jumped into the passenger seat: "Shut up and drive or I'll kill you!" Ten miles out of town he ordered her out of the car, a 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege. She told police that she begged him to let her take the kids. "I don't have time," he said, "but I won't hurt them." And he drove off, leaving her screaming in the road: "I love...
...looking at the trailer park ambiance of Susan Smith's life--the 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege, the $6.35-an-hour job as a secretary, the early, fractured marriage--in all of its awful banality, it becomes a little easier, if not to accept her action, but to see why she was desperately looking...