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...went by a rich variety of aliases: Salim. Andres Martinez. Taurus. Glen Gebhard. Hector Hevodidbon. Michel Assaf. During an infamous career that spanned two decades, Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez used all those names. But the public knew him as Carlos the Jackal, the moniker that best evoked his ruthless, predatory spirit. As he boldly declared in 1975 while holding 11 OPEC ministers hostage in Vienna: "To get anywhere, you have to walk over the corpses." His image is frozen in time in crude black-and-white photos of a pudgy face that seemed menacing in its banality and came to symbolize...
...floor and hide under a desk. Have we gone mad?" Teachers are also afraid: two weeks ago, at the suburban Wauwatosa West High School, a former student named Leonard McDowell, 21, allegedly shot associate principal Dale Breitlow, 46, three times in a second-floor hallway with a .44-cal. Taurus revolver, killing...
...make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon -- the deterrent approach. The District of Columbia has enacted a handgun ban -- but some residents think that may bring new dangers. "I live close to D.C.," says Rafael Escalera, 24, as he buys more bullets for his 9-mm Taurus, "and I've heard people say they would rather rob someone in D.C. than in Maryland because they don't have weapons...
...engineering, manufacturing and management has been proceeding in fits and starts since the mid-1980s at all three companies. Now it is finally starting to work. The evidence is found in a new generation of products: cars like Chrysler's white-hot LH sedans and Ram pickups, Ford's Taurus, Explorer and Lincoln Mark VIII, GM's Cadillac STS, the new Chevy Camaro and the Honda- and Toyota-killer Saturn...
...utility vehicles that are collectively known as light trucks. Their popularity has been especially good news for Detroit because Japan has few entries in the field. According to Autofacts, light trucks accounted for an astonishing 80% of all vehicle sales growth in the U.S. this year. Even Ford's Taurus, the No. 1 selling car in the U.S., has found itself trailing the Ford F-series and the Chevrolet C/K pickup trucks. Not to be outdone, Chrysler plans to roll out a stand-out-in-a-crowd version of its popular Dodge Ram this fall. Designed to resemble a scaled...