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Panic erupted in Yokohama's main train station this morning when a mysterious gas spread through an underground passage, sickening 297 people. By evening, however, police were saying that while the incident seemed to be a deliberate act, the gas was not poisonous. No one was seriously injured. TIME Japan correspondent Irene Maciulis-Kunii said that some in Japan are even seeing this as the perfect terrorist attack: "You make your point, and nobody really gets hurt."Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspected in the Mar. 20nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways, immediately denied involvement. Police said they believe...
Panic erupted in Yokohama's main train station this morning when a mysterious gas spread through an underground passage, sickening at least 261 people.Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspectedin theMar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways, immediately denied any involvement. Thousands of commuters poured out of the station, jamming sidewalks and streets, while sirens wailed and about 10 police helicopters circled overhead. Police, firefighters and chemical weapons experts, some wearing gas masks, were checking the station for the source of a foul chemical odor. (A college student told the Associated Press she saw firefighters clad removing...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
...organizers of the underground group have distributed handouts on campus which include a tongue-and-cheek statement of purpose and a social calendar for the month of March...
...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III recallsthat in the past underground drinking groups havebeen problematic...