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- <text id=89TT1801>
- <title>
- July 10, 1989: American Notes:New Mexico
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- NEW MEXICO
- Banning a BATmobile
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces
- police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that
- the city stop using the Batman logo on its ambulance-like
- BATmobile. The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its
- popularized name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing
- unit.
- </p>
- <p> Axtell did not mind losing his BATmobile. "I'm sure it's
- not going to affect our arrests," he said. "The people we put
- in it probably don't even know there's a bat on it, they're so
- drunk."
- </p>
- <p> But Axtell was no joker. He cut a deal and got Warner to
- donate an official Batman jacket as a prize in a city-wide
- contest to come up with a new name for the five-year-old
- program.
- </p>
- <p> It's all more hype for a batty summer.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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