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...cause has yet been attributed to the blaze, which destroyed over half a million dollars worth of property, mostly from the mathematics and economics departments, the School for Social Work, and the Center for Asian Studies. Eleven offices and several seminar rooms were burned, and a spokesman estimated that the building would be closed at least another week...
...special, high-energy diet in anticipation of four months of standing for a different brood mare every other day. Yet allowing him outdoors in the winter cold would be risky for the horse and horsenapers. His coat could be dyed: Shergar has white feet and a striking white blaze running the length of his face. But the stallion also has an unusual and unalterable amount of white in the left eye. Declared the daily Irish Independent: "At least one-third of Ireland would know him on sight...
Shagari has shown himself to be a politician willing to stoop to any means to bolster his career. A week after the expulsion order, the 32- story Nigerian External Communications building was destroyed in a fire. At least 30 people died in the blaze, which gutted the head-quarters of the nationally run telephone company, and which cut the country off from the outside world for several days. It was the third government building to burn in the past year-- all three of which housed ministries under investigation for multi-million-dollar government corruption. In each case, all potentially incriminating...
...blaze was started by smoking materials discarded in Adams A-14, the scene of the fire. Cambridge Fire Department officials confirmed yesterday...
...communities almost 100 miles away reported that their homes shook. In the predawn hours last Friday, a thunderous explosion ripped through three towering gasoline tanks at a Texaco storage facility in Newark. The blast killed one man and injured 21 others. After using water and foam to contain the blaze, hundreds of fire fighters watched as the giant vessels slowly began to burn themselves out. By daylight the tanks, filled with some 3.4 million gal. of gas for service stations in New York and New Jersey, were flaming mounds of crumpled metal. Fire officials are investigating the cause...