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...where no one lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five, six bodies were thrown onto a pyre that usually served only one. Rows upon rows of pyres burned through the night. -By Pico Iyer...
...heads for Geneva next month, but it is most unlikely to unite in a chorus of Hail, Hail! Instead, the flight may ring with the same discord that fills Washington whenever the subject turns to arms control, since chiefs of all the warring factions will be thrown together. One voice, however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting in with the Secretary of State during talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop the ramp. He could be heard screaming as the hijackers coldly took aim and fired six shots into him. His body was also thrown onto the runway. U.S. officials denied that the American envoy to Karachi was on the plane and established later that the victim was William Stanford, 52, an AID official stationed in Pakistan...
...week. He said that the priest died from strangulation rather than from any injuries he sustained in a beating and was dead when his body was tossed into a reservoir 90 miles northwest of Warsaw. Earlier reports had said that Popieluszko might still have been alive when he was thrown into the water. Urban also confirmed that the four police officers arrested in the case will go on trial soon and that the proceedings will be open to the foreign press. At week's end, however, events took an unsettling turn when two senior police officials involved...
...like tissue paper in DeVries' hands. To make matters worse, when the artificial heart was implanted, it failed to function properly, and a stand-by left ventricle had to be substituted. DeVries felt so frustrated, he later admitted, that "I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor, if the press had not been there...