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...tank from a local armory Wednesday, then rampaged through several neighborhoods, flattening fire hydrants and crushing dozens of cars before he was shot to death by police. No one else was injured. "The guy was just going crazy," said one witness . "He was mowing cars over." Police said the driver, Shawn Nelson, had served in the military and apparently knew how to maneuver the vehicle. They said they shot him as he was trying to spin it round and head into traffic. Fortunately, the tank's weapons -- a 105 mm cannon, 12.7 mm anti-aircraft gun and 7.62 mm machine...
...first day. The adults whispered their worries to one another: Were the Russians catching up? The children slept much of the time, or perhaps pretended to. Once in a while, one of us was allowed up front in the cab. When my turn came, I sat between the driver and another soldier and on top of a bright yellow leather case, the kind German kids used to carry schoolbooks; this one was filled with grenades. A rack under the windshield held two rifles with the troopers' helmets hung over the muzzles. Every time the truck hit a rut, the weaponry...
...driver was a big, red-faced staff sergeant who spoke rarely and was nearly deaf. His name was Peise. Mother eventually told me that Peise was in Father's outfit and that Father had asked him to pick us up after the truck was ordered westward. What Peise's real mission was -- if any -- no one knew. It seemed strange that he had orders to go west when the Wehrmacht needed every man in the east. The sergeant shed no light on the question. He drove the truck with singular determination, fatigue cap pushed into his neck, submachine gun slung...
...search for a third suspect, who may have been the getaway car driver and who fled down Dunster St. as the shootout occurred, has not produced any arrests, according to FBI Special Agent Peter S. Ginieres. "There are no new developments," Ginieres said yesterday...
...culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt. "Now that the country is in the hands of the rightful people," he says, "I'll sweep the streets of Johannesburg if they...