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...death toll was even higher in Huntsville, Ala. There too a school was struck by a tornado. Yet, although it was leveled, the timing -- about 4:30 p.m. -- was fortunate, since most of the children had left. But the twister that roared through the city killed 18, ranging in age from 2 to 67, and demolished 119 houses. "It just started shaking and tearing at everything it could get hold of," said real estate broker Ike Carroll. Jeweler Robert Husman, buried under debris in his demolished store, squirmed to the surface. "I came up looking at the taillights...
Earlier this year Poland's Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, objected to an agreement among four of his fellow prelates and Jewish leaders to remove a Carmelite convent that had been established at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Although he later backed down, Glemp compounded the insult to Jews, charging "Your power lies in the mass media easily at your disposal...
...relations between the Communist parties, including the year 1968" and that "they reached a full identity of views." It has long been the accepted wisdom among Western and Czechoslovak experts that if the legitimacy of the 1968 invasion were ever officially questioned, it would be the Jakes regime's death warrant. This week East Germany's Communist Party chief Egon Krenz will be in Prague for a visit with Jakes. Sources in Berlin intimate that Krenz will try to persuade the Czechoslovak leader to drop his hard line. The trip, said East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer, may just have...
...that returned to El Salvador was vengeful and bloody. In the worst slaughter of the decade, 3,500 leftist rebels battled government troops all week in the streets of San Salvador and in many of the country's 14 regions. The death toll: at least 208 troops, 676 guerrillas and hundreds -- no one knows precisely -- of civilians. Thousands more were wounded...
Most cold-blooded was the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests, which seemed to symbolize all that is wrong in El Salvador. While no one has claimed responsibility, immediate suspicion centered on the country's resurgent right- wing death squads. In the predominantly Roman Catholic country, angry accusations and outrage over the barbaric murders were certain to linger long after the battle had died. And for the U.S., they raised once again the moral dilemma of aiding a country where such acts have repeatedly gone unpunished...