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Monday night, Gov. William F. Weld '66 ordered the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to vote to allow 18-wheeler truck traffic on Memorial Drive, clearing the way for the development of a Super Stop and Shop there at the site of the old store, which was closed down...
...gunfire, and then Escobar was on the ground, groaning and clutching his chest," said Jorge Arango, a witness. Escobar had been shot 12 times. One of the assailants reportedly said, "Thanks for the auto-goal, you son of a bitch." The killers then took off in a Toyota pickup truck. Escobar was pronounced dead 45 minutes later...
Colombian authorities believe the killing had been planned. The owner of the getaway truck told police that the assassins had robbed him of the vehicle an hour before the murder, holding him hostage at an isolated point on the road to the Medellin airport. They reportedly told him they were keeping him for two hours to prevent him from alerting the police "until it was all over." Said a police official: "This wasn't spontaneous violence. It was an execution...
...only redeeming feature of this film, besides some nice footage of Boston, is the special effects, which are excellent at times. The "bouncing Betty" mine shots and the Boston Police truck getting blown up outside the Boston Public Library are two great sequences. And the final explosion is one of the largest this reviewer has ever seen. It actually smashed windows on the waterfront last year during filming...
...newcomers are instructed by local Serb officials to "integrate" into the villages. "That means they can look for a nice Muslim house and then go get it," says Joran Bjallerstedt, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' chief protection officer for the former Yugoslavia. "They back up a truck to the house, load up anything that's salable, beat up the men, rape the women. The authorities say they can't control it. The truth is, they...