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Speaking of Francesca DenHartog without Maureen Finn, however would be like speaking of Tinkers without Evers or Chance. Over the past four years, DenHartog to Finn--or for that matter. Finn to DenHartog--became one of the deadliest double play combinations in Harvard history...
...lonely. She is no longer the beauty she once was." She is also hunted by vengeful enemies. As a result, Phoolan has begun negotiating for police protection in exchange for her surrender. The legends will surely persist, but Phoolan may be shedding her image as India's deadliest woman. Two weeks ago, her gang encircled a bicyclist near the Chambal River. Phoolan scolded her victim for traveling alone in such dangerous country and, when she learned that he had lost part of a leg in the 1971 war with Pakistan, gave him $20 and sent him home with greetings...
...same time, Israel was mourning the victims of the explosion two weeks ago that destroyed the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, killing 75 Israelis and 14 Arabs. The disaster, the deadliest single incident in Israel's history, was at first thought to have been an act of terrorism. By last week, however, Israeli authorities were convinced that it was an accident, probably caused by the escape of gas from the kitchen of the poorly constructed building...
...deadliest of the mishaps occurred as a chartered Spanish DC-10, fully laden with 380 tourists bound for New York, was racing down the runway of the airport near the seaside resort of Málaga. As the aircraft approached the necessary takeoff speed of more than 180 m.p.h., the plane began to vibrate severely. Pilot Juan Pérez apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin...
...bombers soon began screaming over Falkland Sound. The Coventry, helped by other vessels, shot down four of the attackers but was hit and sunk by later sorties. Then the 14,946-ton Atlantic Conveyor, a merchant ship hired for the task force, was attacked by two of Argentina's deadliest type of warplane: the French-built Super-Etendard fighters that carry the sea-skimming Exocet missile. The aircraft fired their weapons from a distance of about 28 miles. One missed the Conveyor; the other struck home. Though the vessel stayed afloat, the crew abandoned ship. Loss of the Conveyor...