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...emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...
...dawn, the Barcelona area looked as if it had been sacked. Corpses floated along the beaches. Thousands were homeless, and much of Barcelona's hard-worked industry lay in ruins. The tornado's human toll: 500 dead, 400 missing...
...going in and paying money for his blobs and craters. Mr. Wickline's artform, which is paint splashed on layers and levels of sand, burlap, and reindeer moss, offers no solution. The titles of his displayed works are "Entourage," "Into Night," "Still Night," "Quiet Harbor," "Impending," "Dusk, Autumn," and "Dawn Spring," all captured by odd strips and lumps of color in black backgrounds...
...Island. Over the water in the darkness before dawn a little boat comes gliding. Without a word a man and a woman step ashore and, shouldering their yokes and pails, trudge across the fields to a spring that lies perhaps a mile inland. When the pails are full they trudge back to the boat, push off without a word and row across the heaving water to an island several miles from shore, a cold rock whelmed in the cold waters of Japan's Inland Sea. There they take up their pails again and, sweating fiercely as the bleak dawn...
...Inheritors, by William Golding. In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways...