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...verbal war on Moscow started with a television interview in which he spoke indignantly, but inaccurately, about an encounter between U.S. and Soviet soldiers in East Germany. On Sept. 8, he said, a Soviet truck "deliberately" bumped an American patrol car. Then the Soviets held a G.I. for nine hours, treating him roughly. The Soviets "generally behaved in the same way that they did in the incident in which Major (Arthur) Nicholson was killed," Weinberger said, recalling the shooting of an American liaison officer by a Soviet sentry in East Germany on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cap Takes a Hard Line | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor (Verna Bloom) to plaster-cast his entire quaking self. Oh, well, if you can't be an artist, might as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...summer afternoon, Trooper 1st Class Frank Woullard was sitting by Interstate 70 in Frederick, Md., in a bright yellow, nine-ton State Highway Administration truck. Woullard's giveway tan hat sat on the seat beside him and his radar detector sat on his lap, safely out of view. Woullard didn't dare show his face to oncoming traffic--instead, he watched for speeders in the rear-view mirror...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...driver was asked if she deserved the $40 ticket she got. "Absolutely not. It's the sneakiest thing I've ever heard of, hiding in a truck...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...blocking the highway like elderly sheep and not even giving drivers the chance to speed and get caught fairly, driving cars which don't let on that they have police inside, and hiding like a Viet Cong inside an unmarked truck violate all the rules of the speeding game. Sleazy tactics like those are--pardon the pun--cop-outs...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

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