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Dateline's report on Nov. 17 featured 14 min. of balanced debate, capped by 57 seconds of crash footage that explosively showed how the gas tanks of certain old GM trucks could catch fire in a sideways collision. Following a tip, GM hired detectives, searched 22 junkyards for 18 hours, and found evidence to debunk almost every aspect of the crash sequence. Last week, in a devastating press conference, GM showed that the conflagration was rigged, its causes misattributed, its severity overstated and other facts distorted. Two crucial errors: NBC said the truck's gas tank had ruptured...
...says E.G. McConnell, one of the veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion who's quoted in The New Republic...
...film didn't have to be this way. All Black Army units did help liberate some concentration camps, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Indeed, the 761st helped liberate the smaller camp of Gunskirchen, while the all-Black 703rd Tank Battalion helped liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald...
...days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon on Jan. 22. "It was not a fun meeting," said a military official. "It gave new meaning to the expression 'frank and cordial.' " On Jan. 24 Aspin appeared on television to warn that his plan was in trouble...
...rights. The human animals who live around the Square also have rights--like the right to breathe something better than the putrid miasma of exhaust and New Age incense that is our local atmosphere. When Li and I finish rolling over the alcinheads, we will stage our own "Monster Tank Rally" and crush the offending cabs...