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...students, Wayne L. Johnson '84 and Peter B. Strong '85, were hospitalized at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Mass. Johnson suffered a fractured bone in his spine from being thrown from the car as it rolled over, he said. Strong added that he tore tendons in his knee and has a broken...
Memorial services were held, and anti-Soviet demonstrations erupted, throughout the world. In Seoul, the destination of the downed flight, 100,000 people jammed the city's main stadium for a mourning ceremony. Kim Soo Jee, 13, told the crowd that "it tore my heart apart" to learn that her father, a member of the jetliner's crew, was never coming home. In Washington, Tryggvi McDonald, 22, eldest son of Georgia Democratic Congressman Larry McDonald, who was on the doomed flight, addressed a placard-waving rally of 750 people in Lafayette Square and later tried to deliver a letter...
...hospital worker, asked her to come into the bedroom during a birthday party she was giving for neighborhood children. "He slapped me blind. He pulled the shotgun from the wall and dared me to move. I cried and asked him why he was bothering me. He just tore my clothes off. He said I was a bitch and used other ugly words. I asked him not to do that because the children and their parents were here. But he just left the room and told everyone to leave. Then he told me to get back in bed and that...
...series of explosions tore the abandoned 1,000-ft.-long tanker in half, spraying burning oil for hundreds of yards in a vast arc around the wreckage. Caught in the curtain of fire that rose from the growing oil slick, the aft section, containing about 100,000 tons of crude, quickly sank. Supported by a pocket of air, the bow section remained afloat vertically, like a six-story-high buoy, with an estimated 40,000 tons of oil still trapped in its tanks...
Well, you had to pack it all into a few hours because you were leaving for Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Thursday. And those that packed it in too quickly got packed back to the ship by the law. There were a lot of those. But nobody tore up the town. The police praised...