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...Voyager officer was walking along a corridor when the Melbourne's bow knifed through a few yards behind him, and he was swept out through the hole left by the collision. Another officer was drinking coffee in the wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam to the surface," he recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open...
...months ago, East Germany charged Erhard's Refugee Minister, Hans Kruger, 61, with having served as a "hanging judge" on a special Nazi court in the Polish Corridor town of Chojnice (then Konitz). From 1940 to 1943, said the Communists, some 2,000 Poles were executed in Konitz, with Kriiger pronouncing at least five death sentences for petty infractions of Nazi law. Kriiger, a bespectacled lawyer whose chubby cheeks are badged with dueling scars, admitted Nazi Party membership and service as a police judge in Konitz, but denied he had dealt any death sentences. Nonetheless, Erhard prudently decided...
Wallace was arrested on July 28 after an encounter with a Farmville policeman in a courthouse corridor. Four misdemeanor charges were filed against the law student, and he was also charged with felonious assault and resisting arrest...
...without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell next door there seemed to be a madman who yelled all night. It is amazing how soon one becomes conscious of sound in jail. A rattle of keys, a footstep in the corridor, a car stopping outside bring one immediately to attention because perhaps it means release...
...that it was not just amour they were after. Sure enough, soon after Cynthia and her lover entered the darkened office, the door burst open and the watchman studied them under a powerful flashlight. Finally, he blurted, "I beg your pardon, madame, a thousand times," and fled down the corridor. Before going to work on the safe, Cynthia had taken the simple precaution of removing all her clothes...