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...year. Martinez says the agency has been logging up to 500 phone calls a day from worried drivers and passengers who want to shut off or disable the safety devices. "When we take the time to explain how to use them properly," he says, "the vast majority [of callers] regain their comfort with air bags." However, the recent spate of publicity has taken its toll on public confidence. Declared a bystander outside the safety agency's news conference: "They're letting us disconnect them? Great. I don't want to be killed...
...office, but West Virginia Governor-elect Cecil Underwood took an awful long time to do it. Under an old West Virginia law, Underwood could not run for a second term at the end of his first. That was in 1961. Three times since then, he has tried to regain his seat; three times he failed. His patience paid off Tuesday on his 74th birthday as the Republican won the sentimental votes of thousands of Democrats to edge state senator Charlotte Pritt, an honest-to-goodness coal miner's daughter. When inaugurated next year, Underwood will hold the distinction of becoming...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Congress must regain the trust of the American people by living under the same laws it imposes on the private sector...
...main problem is that the Japanese people hoped for change three years ago, and are having a hard time taking these new pledges seriously. Despite Hashimoto's declarations, many Japanese expect the Liberal Democrats to sacrifice only the Ministry of Finance if they regain power. The electorate is so dyspeptic that just 52% of respondents in one survey said they plan to vote. Those who wish for a different Japan can only hope that the citizens who vote care enough for change...
...Fretilin's peace plan: a two-year pullback of Indonesian troops and an eventual U.N.-sponsored referendum on self-rule. "We, the East Timorese, are offering an olive branch to Indonesia," Ramos-Horta told TIME last week, describing the process as a way for Indonesia to save face and regain respect. He says his share of the $1.1 million award should have gone to Xanana Gusmao, the Fretilin leader jailed by Indonesia in 1993. Ramos-Horta says Gusmao will determine how the money is spent, though that could prove tricky since the guerrilla leader is being held incommunicado...