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Even on March 18, the last day before the arrival of federation police, six men armed with hammers and chisels and drinking plum brandy pounded their way into apartments in the building next door and began hauling furniture to a truck outside. This time, a contingent of French troops from the multinational Implementation Force arrived and sent them scattering out a rear door. After the troops left, though, the looters returned and finished the job, pausing for swigs from the brandy bottle. The Oprhals were dismayed by how little the ifor patrols had done to protect the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE FAMILY'S OR DEAL | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...faded Southern belle (with, naturally, a glass menagerie) who conceived Mel on a warehouse floor? Could Dad possibly be this truck-driving former Hell's Angel? Mel should be so lucky. For he turns out to be the get of the Schlictings (Alan Alda--as deliriously offcast as Moore--and Lily Tomlin), '60s dropouts who remain dangerously loyal to certain bad habits of their generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: POST-IT MODERNISM | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

AUTOS ONLINE The Internet and private services such as America Online and CompuServe contain countless sites devoted to cars and trucks. But this profusion is easily divided into two main groups. One consists of hundreds, if not thousands, of pages on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet, that are loaded with facts and figures about every conceivable car or truck. Want to know how much a dealer pays for that 1996 Honda Accord you've been eyeing? Or what kind of gasoline mileage it gets? Just log onto Edmund Publications http:www.enews.com/magazines/edmunds) which gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING A CAR WITHOUT THE OLD HASSLES | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...Madison, Wisconsin, dealer Jon Lancaster recently opened an outlet called CarAmerica, which he hopes will be the first in a chain of similar stores. "Fun, fun, fun," is how Madison police officer Susan Carnell describes her 90-minute visit to CarAmerica. Carnell drove off in a 1994 Nissan Pathfinder truck, whose $19,950 price was more than $2,000 below the book value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING A CAR WITHOUT THE OLD HASSLES | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...Jersey native, Littlefield worked as a truck driver and foreman of a concrete-mixing crew before getting into TV. He joined NBC in comedy development in 1979, worked his way up and succeeded the charismatic Tartikoff as president of NBC Entertainment 12 years later when Tartikoff left to become chairman of Paramount Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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