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...York City, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has for the past two months been channeling calls to a room in the Bayview Correctional Facility, a medium-security women's prison. The cheery voice that says, "Hello. May I help you?" belongs to one of 33 inmates who handle up to 6,500 calls a day. The department's regular entry-level employees receive between $8.04 and $9.93 an hour. The Bayview volunteers, many of whom work a full 37 1/2-hour week, pocket 32 cents to 65 cents an hour, the going rate for prison work...
...George Bush arrived at the fashionable Amway Grand Plaza Hotel last week, a full police escort flanked his 15-car motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged in a lengthy scramble...
Demonstrators also brought charges against the driver of a Maryland-licensed motor home who attempted to drive through the mass of protesters at the same time as Seelinger did, according...
Pounding the sides of the vehicle, the women were subject to blows and verbal abuse when the driver stopped and opened his door into the protesters, kicking several who tried to enter the motor home, the Sun reported...
Many U.S. holidaymakers are hurriedly lining up presumably safer summer excursions, including Caribbean cruises and even charter tours to Moscow. But above all, Americans this year are deciding that they would rather take in the splendors of their own land, on motor-home jaunts to Disney World, camping trips to U.S. national parks, and surfing safaris to Hawaii. The travel industry expects a jump of 10% or more in domestic bookings this year. Says Harold Van Sumeren, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Traverse City, Mich., a boating and camping mecca: "We're really anticipating one of the biggest...