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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Two taxi drivers said they saw missing hostage negotiator Terry Waite walking yesterday in a southern Beirut suburb with an escort of about 10 gunmen and four turbaned Shiite Moslem sheiks...
...suspected spy took a train from New York to Boston, where Tonis was waiting for him. The man took a taxi to one of Harvard's river houses, with Tonis in full pursuit...
Many vigilantes are middle-class people who are willing to strike back at the comrades to protect their property and the positions they have achieved. A recent study by Jeremy Seekings of Witwatersrand University found that they include shopkeepers, taxi owners, teachers, police officers and town councilors. Seekings says such people are driven by their "material interest in stability, a related inclination toward conservatism and fear for their lives and property...
...vigilance in policing shoddy maintenance practices led the Government agency to ground 61 commuter and air-taxi carriers for varying periods (some permanently) in 1986, as well as 60 the year before. In its most spectacular gesture, the FAA in March fined Eastern Air Lines $9.5 million for , 78,372 alleged safety and maintenance violations. Pan Am has been jolted by FAA fines of $2 million, while American was assessed $1.5 million...
They need not have worried. Despite its more modern styling, the new cab, which was introduced last month and is known as the Metrocab, is at least equal in comfort to the older models. It has a sleeker hood but is still clearly a taxi. Its color, of course, is black. MCW plans to produce 1,000 Metrocabs in 1987, or about half the number of traditional cabs that London Taxis International sells each year...