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They have names like FX-1, NX-21, MX-02 and TAC3, and features that make them sound like K.I.T.T., the computerized car that is a star of the TV show Knight Rider. They warn a driver when he is too close to the car in front of him or on the verge of falling asleep at the wheel. They understand a command to go faster, and computers under their dashboards plot the car's exact location. They can move sideways, crablike, to park and have memories to recall seating and mirror positions...
...reporters on the island illegally as "liars". Newsweek actually dismissed one of its reporters who broke the government-imposed rules and disappeared from the escort. The Senate was forced, and rightly so, to declare late last week that "restrictions imposed upon the press in Grenada shall cease..." in a rider that passed 53-18, the Senate is now planning a fact-finding mission to the area. It is interesting to think what it will find...
...were these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...
...Arizona votes, there was always an ambiguity in her feelings. She explained her votes in the state senate as being determined by strict adherence to legislative procedure rather than by pro-abortion sympathies. For instance, in 1974 she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider was attached banning state funding for abortions at the university hospital. Her objection was not to the ban, she later explained, but to the use of an irrelevant rider, which she considered unconstitutional. Before her nomination, she told Reagan she found abortion "personally repugnant" and considered it a "subject for state...
...Rider College...