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...fact that the Ohio-born actress was stopped for speeding in the Governor's state-leased car. The fuss prompted Kerrey to cancel her car privileges, and a collection was started to buy Winger a Swinger (a 1971 Dart, for $500). She used the cash instead to buy a station wagon for a home for troubled girls. "I've never been in love with a Governor before, so I don't know all the rules," says Winger. "I'm still kind of learning the territory...
...chain began to take off, growing from eight stores to 100 in her first five years with the firm, Gibson kept the books, traveled as a buyer and even delivered loads of merchandise in her station wagon when the stores ran short. For three years during the company's heaviest growth, when the Gibsons' two daughters Kelly and Beth were in high school, James Gibson stayed home to take care of them. He now owns J. Duffy's, an Ohio company that specializes in designer home accessories...
...vandalism did not stop there. At about 7 a.m. some 50 activists, wearing masks and armed with steel pipes, stormed into the Asakusabashi station in the center of Toyko's wholesale district. They threw Molotov cocktails, torching and seriously damaging the platform and the stationmaster's office...
...tactics: the special operations Delta Force, the Army's helicopter unit Task Force 168, the Navy's SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces) and the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing. West Germany has its G.S.G. 9 antiterrorist group, while the British government has recently decided to station units of its highly regarded Special Air Services at five airports. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the American lawyers in July, "We have behind us many fine declarations and communiqués of good intent. We need action, action to which all countries are committed until the terrorist knows...
...economic freedoms allowed in Shenzhen have turned it into a go-go city where money is paramount. The police arrested more than 500 beggars last year, some of them adults who organized and dispatched children to panhandle at the city's railway station. The town's most popular pastime seems to be currency juggling, with the Hong Kong dollar selling up to double the official rate...