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...officer responded to Cambridge Hospital to assist State Police in obtaining additional information about a student who had been hit by a motor vehicle. The victim sustained minor injuries...
...director Frank Capra to amass a film unit, mainly for documentaries that would instruct soldiers and citizens on the government's enemies, aims and ideals. (From this unit came the "Why We Fight" series and many other powerful non-fiction films.) Geisel, who had sold bug spray and motor oil through humor, and honed his satirical skills on the isolationists for PM, was the prefect recruit for this task. At the end of the war this son of German-Americans wrote a training film called "Your Job in Germany," which said that the German people would have to prove they...
ROBERT SOCIA Car Dealer After 17 years, General Motors is returning to South Africa in full force, buying out its majority partner, Delta Motor. Socia, 49, a GM veteran, arrives to manage the newly named GM South Africa. GM sees the unit, which turned out only about 40,000 cars last year and claimed an 11% market share, as a springboard for growth in Africa. Socia, who previously ran worldwide purchasing, including a cost-saving partnership with Fiat, will fold the division back into GM. The company left the operation at the end of 1986 to protest apartheid, then reappeared...
...battling terrorism. It will also extend from two to four days the period police can detain suspects before filing charges, and introduce American-style plea bargaining. Conservative Justice Minister Dominique Perben noted that it "applies to just 15 precise crime categories," and won't be used against "a motor scooter or apple thief." Opponents argue that the new law requires virtually no proof of a suspect's guilt before the police may use the extended powers, and provides no legal recourse to innocent people who've been unjustly detained. They also worry that plea bargaining will cut courts...
...Then comes the Cover Story. It might reflect an international preoccupation (the Iraq conflict) but may also be a bit of soft news (the Ford Motor Company?s centenary and the challenges it faces today). For the first few years of ?CBS SM,? the reporter of these pieces was usually Richard Threlkeld; now the segment is doled out to top or rising CBS staffers, who get a few extra minutes to find the idea behind the headline...