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...alleged assailant, Miquel Pena, 26, of Dorchester, wounded the driver of the red van, which then sped away onto route 93. The van's driver eventually flagged down a state trooper to get medical assistance, according to police...
Wilde, a seasoned war correspondent who has been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing...
...Trooper Kenneth Foley of the State Police Metropolitan Division said he knew nothing about Saturday's altercation...
Speeding motorists have long lived in fear of the state trooper armed with a radar gun. Now it turns out that the troopers themselves may be at risk. Last week the Connecticut state police banned the use of hand-held speed detectors after three officers filed claims saying long-term exposure to the guns gave them cancer...
...reliable, well- engineered cars, the Japanese seem to have descended on Los Angeles specifically to master the improbable art of creating cars that thrill. The most successful California designs have been tough-but-smart, fun-but- practical Middle American vehicles (Toyota's Previa minivan, Nissan's Pathfinder, Isuzu's Trooper and Amigo) or else sports cars that temper the species' inherent sexiness with a certain grownup decorousness (the Celica, the Miata...