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...agent was first stopped on Aug. 13 because the 1986 Ford Cougar he was driving had improper license plates. At Cortez's side, the report claimed, was Antonio Garate Bustamante, a former Guadalajara police officer who had been jailed on charges of extortion but was later cleared. Inside the trunk of the car was a semiautomatic rifle and an UZI submachine gun, both of which are illegal in Mexico. To make matters worse, Cortez had no identity papers on his person to prove his DEA status. The report conceded that contusions were found on Cortez's body three hours after...
...said the terrorists were killed by three hand grenades they detonated at close range. The legs and lower trunk of one terrorist were blown off by the explosion, he added...
...Desyr was convicted of killing Jean-Jacques Dessalines Ambroise, a union activist, and his pregnant wife, and of torturing Jean-Jacques's brother Emmanuel, in 1965. Ambroise's cousin Alix, who was arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto the floor. It was the broken body of his cousin, near death as a result...
...that processing and memory, once separated by a narrow channel, are now integrated within a fingernail-size piece of silicon. Moreover, each processor is directly or indirectly connected to every other one through what is in effect a miniature telephone system with 4,096 switching stations and 24,576 trunk lines that can be programmed and reprogrammed without actually changing the computer's wiring...
...bridge the human gaps, Hands organizers were expected to string miles of red and blue ribbons and rope. Cars and trucks were to be lined up trunk to hood. At week's end an armada of catamarans and sailboards hauled to the site by their owners made a surreal sea as they floated bow to stern on a hill west of Albuquerque. Hands Tennessee Organizer Tif Bingham said the event would be a huge success, no matter how broken the chain. After all, he pointed out, "the main purpose of Hands Across America is to raise money for the poor...