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...consummate gentleman, Reston, 77, has survived the shark-infested waters of Washington with virtually no enemies and scores of admirers. Though criticized in recent years for losing his bite, he makes no apologies. "After more than 50 years," he wrote, "I remain an up-to-date, stick-in-the-mud optimist." Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger says Reston will not be replaced on the op-ed page. He will contribute some columns and concentrate on his memoirs, which he says will be a "long love letter to America...
...Bornand, France, an Alpine village near the Swiss border, was crowded with holiday travelers on Bastille Day last week. When a violent summer downpour started, many of the 330 French, Dutch and Belgian vacationers took shelter in their trailers and cars. Then suddenly a tidal wave of water and mud cascaded down the river and engulfed the camp area, burying the vehicles and their trapped inhabitants under a mountain of ooze. The devastation killed 23 campers; eight more are still missing...
Seven members of one family were killed when their house was demolished by a mud slide in the southern city of Kwangju, the officials said...
High winds and torrential rains triggered earth slides that sent tons of mud and rock cascading onto villages. Government weather officials said 9.2 inches of rain had fallen during the night...
...Finally the scurrilous gossip broke into print two weeks ago. Bush lieutenants accused the aides of Senate Minority Leader (and rival Republican White House hopeful) Bob Dole of spreading the rumors; Dole's people in turn charged Bush's staffers with sowing stories about how they had slung the mud. As the rumors about rumors escalated, Bush and Dole agreed in Washington last week to order a return to dignity. According to Bush Aide Lee Atwater, the candidates have decided "to keep the Eleventh Comandment: Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican...