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...jungle shootout with police; near Chennai, India. Regarded by the poor as a Robin Hood who fought the ruling classes on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was reportedly lured to his death by his doctor, who talked him into an ambulance by telling him he needed eye surgery. DIED. PIERRE SALINGER, 79, White House press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime...
When the ACC came running, Desmond Bryant stuffed it like a draw play up the middle. The freshman from Elizabethtown, N.C. sidestepped both Duke’s offer as well as interest from Wake Forest, UNC and NC State to test out the greener—if smaller—pastures of the Ivy League...
...closely than the scientists monitoring the instruments scattered across the mountain's ash-coated flanks and half-mile-wide lava dome. This early warning network was installed after the 1980 eruption that blew off the top 1,300 ft. of the mountain, destroying tens of thousands of acres of forest and killing 57 people. Although geophysicists expressed confidence that Mount St. Helens will not erupt with anything close to the explosive power it displayed 24 years ago, they know better than most that the earth's primal forces do not always behave in predictable ways. Which...
Cornell’s troupe depicted the influence of the West on Eastern culture through a dance story about hunters stalking deer through the forest. The Cornell dancers donned berets and shifted their music from Indian song to the sounds of the Black Eyed Peas and Janet Jackson, integrating Western style with their traditional forms as the spirits of the story’s deer rose up with increased vitality after the hunters’ ravage...
...Union organizer Donna Webster fumed about the cfmeu. "That was an absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging in the island state's old-growth forests, the Prime Minister waited until Labor had been attacked by timber workers over its plans to protect vast new areas of forest - which ended up costing it two seats in Tasmania - before releasing his own plan. In the last few days, the campaign got personal. In a speech...