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...California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego and eastward into the Mojave Desert. "The absolute lock the bikers held has been broken, and it's now a wide-open game, with every player for himself," says Larry Bruce, a lean, bearded Orange County criminal lawyer and former public defender celebrated by the biker fraternity for his courtroom skills...
With the Post defense swarming around Ivy Rookie of the Year Mickey Cavuoti, the Crimson's crisp passing repeatedly led to wide-open scoring opportunities. Janotte made several key saves, including pointblank denials of David Kramer and Perry Dodge stuff attempts...
...Vermont. We are a timid, scared team right now and I have to get the losing demon out of our system. We have to exorcise it out, and it's my fault that we haven't yet."--Vermont basketball Coach Tom Brennan after Catamount Mike Lubas missed a wide-open layup at the buzzer during his team's 53-51 loss to Harvard...
...abusers frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level drug trade is so lucrative that it seems worth killing for. In Washington law-enforcement officials attribute the mayhem to turf wars between rival dope gangs vying for shares of the city's wide-open, de-centralized crack market. The deadly competition in the two cities is made still more lethal by arsenals of sophisticated firearms smuggled from Virginia and other states with permissive gun laws...
...would give ! a major statement on the issue and then submit to in-depth questioning by a panel of experts in the area. Instead of using the conventional debate format, which puts too much emphasis on one-liners, superficial answers and images, each candidate would appear alone for a wide-open discussion with extensive follow-up. Each appearance (address plus questioning) would take about an hour, and the candidates could be videotaped simultaneously to avoid giving either the advantage of going second. The two presentations could then be broadcast during that week. The idea is to allow the voters...