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Simultaneously, the two other teams entered through the two rear doors, deploying escape chutes and herding passengers out the emergency exits. Paratroopers met them on the tarmac and instructed them to crawl toward the terminal, where the wounded were given emergency treatment, mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such...
Last Wednesday police called Smith in for questioning again. That same day a team searched her home, dusting for fingerprints, exploring a crawl space in the basement and removing several bags from the house. It was all finally too much: Smith broke down under questioning and told police where the boys' bodies could be found. Following her directions, divers returned to John D. Long Lake; around 4:15 on Thursday afternoon, they pulled Smith's car from the mud. "Even after she said it, I just couldn't believe the children would be there in the car, no way," says...
...Black infants sit, stand, crawl and walk sooner than whites...
...this describes the American economy today, according to the consensus of a panel of five leading economists whom TIME assembled last week to assess the outlook through 1995. Their key finding: after nearly four years of growth that began at a crawl but has settled into a comfortable trot, the prospects for the U.S. economy are now among the brightest since World War II. The country is "in the midst of a long, durable and sustainable expansion" that could prove to be "one of the longest and healthiest upturns in the modern era," said Allen Sinai, chief global economist...
...will Gingrich take greater scrutiny of his private life? A normally expansive man, his verbal pace slows to a crawl when describing details of his first marriage and its dissolution. (He has since remarried.) "I don't talk about it much," he told TIME. "I met my ex-wife when she was my high school math teacher . . . at Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia." Married after his freshman year at Emory University, he says what he calls the "random accident" of their getting together "seemed to make sense at the time. I can't look back badly, from the standpoint...