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...Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from the kidnapers in the FBI's Miami field office. By wiretapping the calls, the bureau was able to pin down the location of the hideaway. When the kidnapers acceded to his demands that his wife call him from an outside telephone to prove that she was still alive, the FBI trap...
...bridge had undergone inspection last September, but J. William Burns, Connecticut's transportation commissioner, suggested a likely cause of collapse: a structurally crucial steel pin, 10 in. long and 7 in. in diameter that, he said, "is missing or sheared off." The accident has already prompted unscheduled bridge inspections and maintenance in several states. As well it should: the Federal Government says that of 564,499 U.S. bridges, 21% are "obsolete" and 23% are "structurally deficient." Officially, the Mianus River Bridge was neither...
...read this far, however you must be cooler than AOR and here are some places for you Spit, on Lansdowne St. is for the safety pin in the nose set The Metro, its neighbor, is only slightly more conservative. Both are hot, huge, modern dance halls replete with the latest videos. National new wave acts do make stops, but not much yet is scheduled for the summer...
...first reason is historical. The Democrats unsuccessfully tried to pin Reagan's age on him in 1980, it's hard to believe it'll work now. Indeed it's hard to remember a time when age or health concerns did defeat a presidential nominee. Back in 1956, with Dwight D. Eisenhower recuperating from a massive heart attack of the year before. Adlai E. Stevenson declared that "every piece of scientific evidence we have, every lesson of history and experience" indicated that Eisenhower would conk out by the end of a second term. Of course, he didn't--but Stevenson...
Stow Acres featured unusually abbreviated distances between the tee and the pin on every hole yesterday. The recent deluge over the Boston area left the course wet enough to warrant this action by the club's management, who hoped to protect the ice areas from massive divots. "It makes the course a little easier," Nastala commented, adding that Stow Acres is fairly wide and obstacle-free as well...