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...area, one coolly pulled a submachine gun from her bag and the other flashed a pistol as they demanded the release of the two prisoners. A quick-thinking guard grabbed the pistol and pulled Vogel back into a bulletproof cell. But the "lawyers" escaped with Meyer in a Volkswagen minibus that was conspicuously parked near the prison, with three other women...
Even by Ulster standards, it was a crime of surpassing brutality. Early Monday evening a red minibus was routinely carrying twelve workers home from their jobs at the John Compton Ltd. textile factory in violence-ridden South Armagh (TIME, Jan. 12). Suddenly, just outside the village of Whitecross, the bus was stopped by a group of masked, heavily armed men. The workers and their driver were lined up against the vehicle, and the lone Roman Catholic among them was sent away. The rest, all Protestants, were then gunned down in a withering hail of automatic fire. Ten died instantly...
...billion five years ago, will cost at least $4.5 billion, perhaps $6 billion, before it is fully completed in 1981. Prices of goods that cities buy are also steep. Environmental and transportation equipment was exhibited for the officials in Houston. But reaction to items like a 19-seat minibus was tempered: mayors kicked the tires and winced at the $19,000 price...
...Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN WAYNE. On a VW minibus belonging to one of Wayne's propmen, a penciled notation was added; it read: "And Sister Kate...
...facilities in Allston on public land has been blocked, understandably, by that community. And Harvard has announced plans to build housing on the Business School parking lot. Thus an early solution, to park cars on the other side of the river and to shuttle people to the library by minibus, is no longer possible...