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...accident occurred around 3:30 p.m. when the heavy mechanical shovel cut the three-inch underground telephone cable. Construction workers are building two Harvard-owned apartment structures on the DeWolfe St. site...
...just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they arrested Jiri Ruml and Rudolf Zeman, well-known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman for the Charter 77 movement and the country...
...council also passed two ordinances introduced by Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 designed to reduce the costs of waste disposal and protect the city's underground water supply...
...fires sputter down. By then 514 city blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...
...section of the San Andreas is unusual in that it is the Old Faithful of earthquake zones, generating moderate tremors every 20 to 27 years. The last Parkfield earthquake occurred in 1966, which means that the next one should strike between now and 1993. By keeping detailed track of underground changes over time, scientists hope to identify precise signals that an earthquake is imminent...