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...considered proof that a driver is drunk. Defense attorneys across the country have challenged the reliability of breath-analysis equipment, and they have had some success. Starting in 1982, several courts found that police radio equipment could at times affect the accuracy of some models of Smith & Wesson's Breathalyzer. That legal argument lost part of its power eight months ago, when tests for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that radio-frequency problems are rare and can be avoided with proper safeguards...
...vessel that snakes across his left temple. Heaven knows he needs it. San Francisco is overrun with thrill-juiced punks and Mafia goons. No sweat, though: Harry has more artillery than the Cubans ever dreamed of stocking on Grenada. Interrupting a stickup in a diner, he aims a Smith & Wesson the size of Mr. T's forearm at an armed robber and grimaces, "Make my day." Then Harry insults a Mob chieftain with such savagery that the old man suffers a fatal heart attack. "Hey," he later shrugs to his apoplectic chief of detectives, "how'd I know...
...machines have come a long way in speed and accuracy since the days when suspects were asked to blow into a glass vial for a wet chemical test. The latest version of Smith & Wesson's $4,300 Breathalyzer measures the level of alcohol in a suspect's blood by projecting an infrared beam through a sample of breath blown into the machine. Massachusetts State Police, whose arrests for drunken driving in the past three months have increased 48% over last year, bought 35 of the new Breathalyzers in August...
...described as armed and dangerous. Thus police moved in forcefully when they thought they spotted Martin in London's Kensington district, sitting in an automobile with a former girlfriend, a model named Sue Stephens. Members of the pursuit force, who, unlike most British policemen, were armed with Smith & Wesson .38 handguns, riddled the car with 14 bullets. A badly wounded man slumped out of the car, and Stephens allegedly shouted, "You've made a terrible mistake!" after which a voice asked, "Who is it, Susie? Who have we shot?" As it turned out, the victim was not Martin...
...making for decades: more economic aid from the U.S. and freer access to U.S. markets. Says former CIA Director William Colby: "There is nothing terribly new in Americans choosing their European friends over their Latin friends. But Latin Americans will look to their own economic interests first." Says Robert Wesson of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: "There is little to be done but say 'sorry about this' and then go on to increase trade, build a new life, so to speak, after the Falklands...