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...Last week, though, the Cordillera had been forced to give back 16 of the 45 people who had been aboard a Uruguayan air force plane that hit a mountain peak in mid-October. Incredibly, the survivors lasted for 73 days in deep snow and subfreezing temperature. They took extremely grim measures in order to do so-they ate the bodies of those who had died in the crash...
...bombing continues, it seems a grim certainty that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. count will climb still higher. More notification officers will be fanning out across the U.S. in weeks to come, clutching their "error-free" confirming messages, just as regulations prescribe...
Broadway has been doing an unconvincing job of dying for as long as it has been alive. These days, however, its hypochondria is being taken seriously-and with good reason. From all standpoints, the current season is as grim as any that Broadway oldtimers can remember since the Depression...
...still a victory in the struggle for human rights. Let them send Grigorenko and Bukovsky out for propaganda too." Chalidze's friends in Moscow worry that the Soviets will not let him re-enter the country, or will arrest him if they do. Under the present grim conditions, there is a diminishing chance that the Chronicle will survive to report Chalidze's fate...
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 708 was 13 minutes out of Addis Ababa last week, en route to Asmara, Athens, Rome and Paris, when a grim, familiar sequence began. Five men and two women stood up in various sections of the Boeing 720-B jet's passenger section, pulled out guns and began shouting orders in Amharic. Their skyjacking attempt turned out to be brief, bloody and singularly unsuccessful. Ethiopian security men, who have been aboard all the airline's international flights with orders to shoot to kill, also jumped up and commenced firing. Six of the skyjackers were killed...