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...third time in eight days that whites had been victims of racially motivated violence. Two days before, an unidentified non-white youth threw a hand grenade under a van parked on a crowded Durban street, injuring eight whites. On Dec. 15, six whites were killed when their truck hit a land mine as they drove along a road near the Zimbabwe border. The A.N.C. admitted that it had planted the device, as well as six others that have killed seven and injured eleven since November. Predictably, the government of State President P.W. Botha promptly blamed the A.N.C. for the Sanlam...
...thieves frequently hire pickers, who pluck away, looking like legitimate harvesters. In a few hours they can fill a pickup truck with avocados, which they then sell to wholesalers for more than $1 per lb. A year ago, before oversupply and rising water costs forced many growers out of business and helped cause the current shortage, the same fruit fetched about 27?...
...busy, triumphant night for Harold Ezell. Outfitted in a blue blazer and striped tie, the Government's most ardent alien chaser jumped into a helicopter and rode along as it sent a piercing searchlight across the hills and arroyos south of San Diego. Then he scrambled into a pickup truck and peered through a nightscope to watch his agents tear through the chaparral in Dodge Ram Charger "war wagons" to overtake groups of Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. Later, he proudly counted the day's total arrests: 2,643 illegal immigrants. Nudging a companion, Ezell declared...
Century Cartage Co., a small truck line out of Atlanta, is still in business only because the Georgia Public Service Commission approved an "emergency" 5% rate increase for its customers. But that boost came nowhere near meeting the cost of liability-insurance premiums that doubled to $48,000 last year and then leaped to $114,000 at the start...
...captains now, but the seas are still rough. Women directors are free to make "people pictures" with women as sympathetic protagonists--as Deitch says, "We can't leave it all to Woody Allen"--or, like Spheeris and Heckerling, they can turn out action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent just...