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...aftermath, police discovered an orange Toyota station wagon, stolen earlier, that they believe was used by the killer on the night of the attack. By tracing a fingerprint found in the car, authorities announced a "positive identification" of the suspected killer: Richard Ramirez, a native of El Paso, Texas, who has been drifting around Los Angeles and San Francisco for several years. The following day, Ramirez was seized in East Los Angeles. Police said he was chased and beaten by a crowd, apparently after trying to steal a car from a woman...
Sports manufacturers and retailers got on the wagon at the outset, of course. All it took to jog was a good pair of shoes. Triathlons require racing bikes, cycling shoes, crash helmets, running shoes, a swimming pool or an ocean and all manner of attire. In Chicago, a hotel ballroom was jammed with expensive wares, from high-powered energy drinks to "tri-suits," one-piece jobs that can be worn in all three events. The professional athletes make their money endorsing these items (first place in Chicago paid $2,000; the total purse was $15,000), holding training camps...
ARRESTED. Steven Wayne Benson, 34, ambitious, financially and maritally troubled heir to an estimated $10 million tobacco fortune; on charges that on July 9 he planted two pipe bombs in the family station wagon, killing his widowed mother and foster brother and seriously wounding his sister, after his much tried parent, discovering that he had apparently looted some $2 million from her investment account, threatened to cut him out of her will and the family enterprises; in Naples, Fla. Evidence linking him to the crime included his known familiarity with explosives and electronics and a latent fingerprint of his found...
...began in late July when the tan 1980 Toyota station wagon owned by Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul...
...clash of empires, the battle of the giants in telecommunications is going to make it difficult for anyone smaller to survive. GTE (1984 sales: $14.5 billion), for example, is having troubles with Sprint, its long-distance telephone service. MCI may have found the secret for survival by hitching its wagon to IBM's star...