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Since the 1988 closing of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther | King Jr. was assassinated, there have been two constants at the scene: a steady stream of sightseers looking at the unofficial shrine, and the motel's last manager, Jacqueline Smith, who stubbornly refuses to say goodbye to the facility. Night and day, through storm and sunshine, Smith, 39, has camped out in a pup tent in front of the fenced-in property, courteously greeting tourists and adamantly opposing plans to renovate the Lorraine and construct a $9 million Lorraine Civil Rights Museum. She thinks the place should...
Smith was still there last week, forcing crews to work around her as they began gutting the motel. With city and state officials wary of being drawn into the fray, the construction company, facing possible delay penalties, reluctantly petitioned a chancery court judge to order Smith's removal. The court directed Smith to vacate the property or face arrest. Sheriff's deputies are expected to try to enforce the court order this week...
...almost seems raw, and it's not hard to figure why. "You know," Baerwald says, "two days before I started making Bedtime Stories, I was living in a nice house in the suburbs with a woman I deeply loved. The day I started, I was living in a motel in Compton." He may have changed his address since then, but, on the & evidence of the songs, his broken heart is still in the right place...
MASTER BUILDING ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN. Mike Dukakis and Rob Lowe aren't the only ones with bittersweet memories of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. For two years, visitors to that city have been paying a 2 cents surcharge on hotel and motel rooms to retire the $15 million tab for hosting the party. Two weeks ago that magic sum was attained, but the surcharge remains; now the goal is to help pay for the $210 million Georgia Dome, a spanking new facility that will host the 1994 Super Bowl...
...through an intensive 14-week training course that begins with lessons in surveillance. They track a suspect from his home, then observe him at a shopping mall as he sells a small bag of phony cocaine. Next comes a class in simple arrest, when agents burst into a fleabag motel to capture an unarmed John as he lies in bed with a make-believe prostitute. Agents learn how to frisk suspects, read them their rights, and complete arrest forms. Instructors, all of whom are former agents, carefully critique every arrest, providing pointers on how best to subdue a struggling suspect...