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...cars, including two engines, jumped the tracks at the curve only 500 ft. from the underground station. They slammed into a commuter train packed with 900 people on an adjacent track. Fuel ignited, and smoke choked trapped passengers in the darkness. At least 280 passengers were hurt...
Thirty years ago, Oliver Tambo slipped out of South Africa to establish an overseas network of the African National Congress just before the underground movement was crushed at home. Tambo, president of the A.N.C. since 1967, returned last week, flying into Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport to delirious shouts of "Tambo, Tambo, Tambo...
...official's visit was ominous, since Chen Ziming, 38, the former head of a private think tank, had been accused of being a key organizer of the Tiananmen Square protests that the government brutally crushed in June 1989. After the crackdown, Chen went underground with his wife and several friends, including Wang Juntao, 32, a former editor of the defunct Economic Studies Weekly. Late last year the pair topped a secret government wanted list of pro- democracy leaders. Arrested a few months later while trying to escape abroad, Chen and Wang are detained in Qincheng, a maximum-security prison outside...
After the Osirak attack, Iraq tried to realize its ambitions by buying bomb- grade material from underground suppliers. In 1982 Iraqi agents paid $60 million to a team of Italian-based smugglers who claimed to have access to stores of plutonium and highly enriched uranium. According to U.S. officials, the smugglers' offer was a fraud, and the Iraqis walked away from it empty- handed...
...best interests of both Mayor [Raymond] Flynn and Governor-elect [William F.] Weld ['66] that the both of them review Scheme Z and urge that as much as possible be put underground," McCormack said...