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MANILA School-bus hostage crisis ends peacefully
...earnest ex--file clerk went on to become Dave's fumbling, inadvertently hilarious lucky charm. Before retiring in 2003, he covered the 1994 Olympics in Norway, mock hawked products like Toast on a Stick and greeted tourists with hot towels at New York City's seedy Port Authority bus terminal...
...Throughout the day, onlookers and television viewers caught glimpses of the children, aged four to eight, through gaps in the bus' curtains as they periodically waved at TV cameras. One girl in a ponytail could be seen caressing a Barbie doll behind the front window. Another child, reportedly suffering from a fever, was released shortly after noon and taken to Manila hospital...
...Although the temperature reached a steamy 93 degrees, the hostage-takers kept the bus idling in order to keep the air conditioner on. The children were even brought ice cream - though that may have been poor compensation for a field trip gone spectacularly awry...
...after an eight-and-a-half-hour standoff - the doors of the bus opened to cheers from the crowds and children began to pour out. In the door of the bus, Jun Ducat - with what looked like a submachine gun slung under his arm - and an accomplice could be seen delicately handling what appeared to be hand grenades and passing them out to police. The two men were rushed into a police van and immediately whisked away to headquarters. This time, officers say, charges will be filed against them...