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...were buried in the sludge, their location sometimes marked by pools of blood on the surface. Other corpses lay half visible in miniature bogs that were as treacherous as quicksand. Some exhausted survivors lay on the surface of the mud in shallows, or staggered along in shock on drier ground. Many of the living were naked or only partly clothed; their garments had been torn from them by the swift-moving lahar. All were encrusted with ash-colored goo that quickly hardened under the next morning's sun into a gritty carapace. Many of the survivors had suffered serious injuries...
Lamented Marta Cruz, another Red Cross worker: "We don't have the right medicines, there is no clothing, and the ground is humid. Infection is going to spread." The only food on hand for injured survivors was yogurt and sweet biscuits known locally as frena. Julian Ramírez, a mechanical engineer who had lost his five-year-old daughter in the calamity, feared that hundreds of additional survivors would die for lack of care. "They give us yogurt and frena. What good is that?" he asked...
Since the last U.S. ground troops withdrew from Viet Nam in 1973, relations between the two countries have been frozen, in part over Hanoi's failure to cooperate with the U.S. in accounting for 1,787 American G.I.s listed as missing in action. In a bid to break the diplomatic impasse, the government of Premier Pham Van Dong last summer promised to resolve the MIA dispute within two years. Hanoi offered to identify and turn over to the U.S. the remains of any American soldiers it found. Washington insisted on direct participation in any Vietnamese search...
Princeton never managed to make up the ground it lost in the middle 1,000 meters of the race, and the Crimson steadily widened the margin in the last stretch of the course despite a headwind...
Lewis-Lamonica shot 3-for-3 and recovered four ground balls, and 10 Tigers ultimately scored, with two more tallying assists...