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First came the motorcycle outriders, then jeeps, trucks and buses crammed with grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks--squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin like a jagged piece of glass. As the troops arrived at scores of border points, cargo trucks were already unloading rolls of barbed wire, concrete posts, wooden horses, stone blocks, picks...
...grim coincidence, last week was officially Hazardous Weather Awareness Week in Florida. The storms, spawned by El Nino, that raked across the state generated as many as 10 twisters, probably the worst pack of tornadoes ever to hit Florida at one time. Last week's toll is still being calculated, but so far, 39 people are known killed, 250 injured and two missing. Some 1,700 apartments, pre-fab houses and single-family homes were damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimates exceed $65 million. Dozens of Florida counties have been declared disaster areas; President Clinton, touring some of the worst...
...Grim and desolate: that's both Iraq's landscape and its state of mind. The once proud city of Baghdad wears the rags of poverty: marble chipping off the extravagant examples of modern architecture built in an era of prosperity, doors and window glass for sale from middle-class villas, grime and time eating away the old tenements of the poor. Everyone in the streets looks shabby and tired. You see few smiling faces, and only the black-market profiteers and smugglers are well dressed. Sandy dust coats everything in a city slipping back into the desert...
...lieu of Kline, the Lampoon staged a tag-teambout that pitted Savage and Grimace, a McDonaldscharacter, against a group of costumed spectatorsculled from the audience. These included a cowboy,a ninja, the philosopher Socrates, a cadre ofRevolutionary War soldiers and the Grim Reaper...
...like we're standing under Niagara Falls, looking for a boat to get us out of here," McCurry said privately. Many in the White House had the air of experienced plane-crash investigators going about their business with grim efficiency. As with past scandals like Whitewater and Travelgate, the White House operation divided cleanly between the President's legal team--Charles Ruff, David Kendall, Bob Bennett--who didn't want Clinton to talk, period, and his political strategists, who wanted to send him out to calm the waters. And so, true to form, the President did both: gave his interviews...