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...blast stunned eastern and central Europe. Thirty-one weather- related deaths were reported in Poland, 20 in Hungary and 5 in Austria. Along the snowbound, 170-mile highway linking Budapest with Vienna, more than 130 cars were immobilized for up to 18 hours until Soviet, Hungarian and Austrian tanks dug them out. One of the liberated motorists was Austria's Ambassador to Hungary, Arthur Agstner. Declared the grateful diplomat: "If the Soviet tanks had not arrived in time, several of us could have frozen to death...
...church, considered the masterpiece of architect H.H. Richardson, suffered cracking of its stone masonry when John Hancock dug a hole across St. James Avenue for its headquarters--the tallest building in Boston--according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which upheld a lower court jury verdict...
...life of its own added new urgency to the maneuverings of Reagan's old California cronies (and of his wife) to prompt a housecleaning. Yet Reagan continues to resist. "If anything," said Senator Paul Laxalt, a longtime friend, after seeing Reagan early last week, "his heels are dug in even deeper than before." Don Regan, annoyed with someone who again raised the subject of his resigning, reportedly responded, "You (expletive deleted) resign...
...bombings that have become more frequent in recent months precisely because resistance groups have found no other way to influence the white population. If the South African government is successful in its attempt to build a wall around the revolution in its midst, it will have also dug the grave of that country's white minority. When the violence finally bursts through that wall, the government will no longer be the only group unwilling to compromise...
...made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...