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...neighbors cheered the gangbusters. The task force had been called in by Vidalia's 26-man police force, which had recently found itself outgunned by homegrown drug sellers who were terrorizing citizens and making daily death threats to Vidalia's lone narcotics investigator. Like most of small-town and suburban America, normally peaceful Vidalia had never seen anything like...
...Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient system of municipal boundaries, Delouvrier developed a Paris that is often cited as a model of modern planning...
...Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. If the strike continues into next week, the slowdown will spread to Chrysler and Ford -- further putting pressure on GM to settle the strike. But McWhirter does not expect it to go that far. "Both sides are negotiating...
...vote Democratic are much more in tune with Republican positions on social issues. "Republicans at this time are standing for some things that we, as religious people, would like to see from the Democratic Party," says Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta. "We're antiabortion, pro-prayer in school, and we have a problem with gays in the military...
...line of succession -- after Al Gore -- to the presidency. Immediately upon his arrival, Capitol security surrounded him with a constant cordon. The populist, however, kept an eye on symbolism. Instead of traveling in a line of sedans, Gingrich packed himself, his aides and his security into a Plymouth Suburban -- the limo of the new American order...