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...Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a bus. He burned his lips on the exhaust pipe...
...night is balmy. The highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...
...hits. But no deafening, jolting crash occurs. On impact, the two cars swing away easily, for they are on casters and covered with polyurethane foam pads. The terrorist threat was not for real, but still there is genuine sweat on the driver's palms. This is part of the final exam given at the BSR Counter-Terrorist Driving School. It is the culmination of a four-day course held at Summit Point, W. Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. Instructor Bill Scott, 42, a Yale Ph.D. in geology and an ex-champion Formula Super Vee race-car driver...
...ambush the two basic maneuvers are the bootleg and J turns, which students practice for hours. The worst thing is to do nothing. During "confrontation and chase," a sort of midterm exam on wheels, each student jockeys one Malibu around the track, trying to anticipate, and avoid, ambushes by "terrorist" instructors in three other cars...
...lists four external factors that have contributed to the explosive situation in the Philippines, where 20,000 students have been reported protesting and where the incidence of terrorist bombings and guerilla campaigns is increasing daily. "The rise in OPEC oil prices--$180 million before martial law, $12.2 billion now--worldwide inflation, international recession, and an unmanageable national debt--$2 billion in 1972, $11.2 billion now-- have all made Marcos' regime untenable," he says...