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Their VIP passenger was strapped into a seat by Angel Castro Jr., a 45-year-old sergeant major who has spent more than half his life in the Marines. "I sat him down," Castro recalled in a thick Bronx accent, "and he said 'Thank you, thank you, thank you' -- he just kept on saying that." O'Grady was shivering, dehydrated and soaking wet. After he drank almost an entire canteen of water, Castro asked him if he wanted something to eat. He nodded, and an MRE -- a meal, ready-to-eat-was passed forward. O'Grady took three or four...
...people living in the tiny oil-drilling town of Neftegorsk. The violent quake, 7.5 on the Richter scale, flattened the shoddy Soviet-built apartment blocks; in a section of town, one of the few structures still standing was a statue of Lenin. Subfreezing nighttime temperatures complicated rescue efforts, and thick offshore ice kept a hospital ship from reaching Sakhalin...
...retaliated by shelling five of the six U.N.-established "safe zones" in Bosnia, killing 76 people. It was the highest death toll in months and triggered a second air raid on other Pale ammunition dumps Friday that might have done serious damage: observers noted a heavy explosion and a thick column of smoke. The Serb response was to seize or detain more than 200 members of the U.N. peacekeeping force in various locations in Bosnia; some were merely kept under a sort of house arrest, but TV showed pictures of a few being held in chains at the ammunition dump...
...competition was thick even before Kids was screened. That director Larry Clark's film still commanded the spotlight was a tribute to its American distributor, Miramax films, and its cunning boss, hype master Harvey Weinstein, who chose to see the film as a crusade for condom use. "Very few films have the ability to change the way people act," he says. "Hopefully this one will shock parents into doing something to help their children...
...devastating temblor, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, hit at 1am on Sunday, leveling the town of Neftegorsk and burying most of the 3,500 residents in the wreckage of brick and concrete buildings. In Neftegorsk, cries of pain were heard amid the rubble, the whole area clouded by thick smoke from fires sparked by the quake. At least 2,000 people were feared dead. "The whole town collapsed," Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told Russian television. Japan and South Korea immediately offered to send emergency teams and financial aid to help in the effort. By late Monday, rescuers had located...