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...with a bright orange Mercedes symbol on it started heading toward them along the river. Talraas could see more "technicals" moving across the bridge about a thousand meters off to the left. That's when the white van appeared, its red lights flashing. After they were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita shouting "Medic! Medic!" as they tore back to safety...
...thinking she would be able to get a seat home if she waited a bit. When she finally deposited her 10¢ fare on the Cleveland Avenue bus, she found a seat in the first row of the "colored" section in the back. But after a few stops, the driver ordered her to get up so a white passenger could sit down. Parks refused, and the police were called to take her to jail. Two hours after her arrest, she was released on $100 bail. By midnight, a plan had been hatched for a citywide bus boycott, which a young Baptist...
...trying to flee with the Americans. Hours earlier, one man had tried to put his baby on an embassy bus, as ABC's Ken Kashiwahara recalls in the oral history Tears Before the Rain. Kashiwahara watched as the man fell, and the bus ran over the baby. But the driver kept going...
...Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...squat, chain-smoking diabetic and former army driver, Chemical Ali has been outranked as a trusted deputy to Saddam only by the Iraqi leader's younger son Qusay. At Saddam's 65th-birthday celebration last year in his hometown of Tikrit, al-Majid stood in for the dictator who was fearful of an assassination attempt. As part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to shore up support for Baghdad, alMajid made recent trips to Libya and Syria but reportedly spent part of the time handing out millions of dollars to build support for his having a leadership role in post...