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...Trade. Several lawmakers voted in favor of last week's House and Senate measures with the hope that Reagan, even though he did not support them, will be able to confront Nakasone with the dire prospect of U.S. retaliation if Japan fails to become a fairer trading partner. "A shotgun behind the door" was the way House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas described the Senate bill. Even if Reagan does not pull the trigger, he will surely have Nakasone's undivided attention...
...discovery of a full female scalp in a stolen car. Alex Mengel, 30, a Guyanese-born tool-and-die maker, was returning home from a weekend of target shooting in the Catskill Mountains when a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer made the mistake of pulling him over. Noting spent shotgun shells in Mengel's car, the officer radioed for assistance. But before help could come, Mengel allegedly killed him with a single bullet to the head and fled on foot...
...mugging. The youths were hardly innocents. The four have had a history of brushes with the law that have included nine convictions, twelve outstanding cases and ten bench warrants for non- appearances in court. The hospitalized Cabey is awaiting trial on charges of robbing three men with a shotgun...
...American architecture," he believes, "is going all over the place, like pellets sprayed from a shotgun." He is particularly disenchanted with the postmodernist eclecticism that has become fashionable in the past decade. "You cannot evoke the past by simply taking historical symbols and using them as applique," he maintains."What does it mean to put a Roman arch over someone's house in Connecticut? Nothing. Architecture has to do with the totality of the building, not the application of illiterately assembled elements...
Cesare ("Tall Guy") Bonventre was one of the latter. When he entered the U.S. 16 years ago from Castellammare del Golfo at the age of 17, he had few skills beyond a natural ability with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun. But he was quick and good-looking, and he did have some connections: his uncle Peter was a founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found...