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...carnival's Ferris wheel operator, Redmond was questioned by police at the time, but eluded them after an arrest warrant was issued in 1952. Then in 1985 Trainer Borough Police Chief Hubert Morris revived the investigation. "I had heard about little Janie Althoff since I was a boy," said Morris, 57. "I really wanted to see what we could do to resolve this." He enlisted the expertise of State Police Trooper Malcolm Murphy. Using court records and driver's license registrations, Murphy located Redmond living quietly as a retired trucker in Grand Island, Neb. Confronted by his pursuers after...
Even before the first 1988 primary vote, there is talk about the need for further change. Surprisingly, some Iowans also sense a new turn of the wheel. Says George Wittgraf, director of the Bush Iowa campaign: "This is too much weight to be on the shoulders of one state. I don't think Iowa will ever again be as important as it is in 1988." There are signs of candidates' trying new strategies: Albert Gore is holding back until the Super Tuesday races in the South; Cuomo is sitting on the sidelines and refusing to rule out a late entry...
...have committed war crimes, they maintain that he must have known about them as an interpreter with the rank of lieutenant and later as an intelligence officer. They insist that he then strove for four decades to conceal his knowledge. "It cannot suffice to describe Waldheim as a small wheel within wheels who saw nothing, heard nothing and knew nothing," says Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist who has studied Waldheim's record. "He has to be seen in the context of the war of extermination in the Balkans...
...showed some flair with its popular Chevrolet Beretta and Corsica compacts introduced last year. Now the company is gambling $5 billion to gear up its new GM-10 cars for the more profitable midsize market. These front- wheel-drive coupe models of the Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass (a Chevrolet model is due next year) replace rear-wheel- drive versions. GM engineers have given each of the cars its own distinctive body lines...
...stern as the Government's action was, ATV critics are not satisfied. Consumer groups and some Congressmen contend that Washington should recall all of the 1.5 million three-wheel ATVs still in use in the U.S. and force manufacturers to give purchasers a refund. Says James Florio, Democratic Congressman from New Jersey: "How can anyone truly concerned with safety in effect say 'Tough luck' to people who currently own these unsafe vehicles?" Government officials defend their action, maintaining that a recall would cause a lengthy court battle...