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...Forgotten About PBH?" written by Jeffrey S. Nordhaus (August 7), contain numerous factual errors, which demonstrate the irresponsibility of The Crimson's reporting. In van Wingerden's articles she repeatedly gives the reader the impression that passengers only escaped from the bus seconds before it became a flaming inferno. Van Wingerden writes that "fire engulfed the vehicle" and it "burst into flames," both exaggerated descriptions that give a false impression of the danger the children were in. Van Wingerden's investigative techniques are also suspect. She reports on Friday, August 8, that I had yet to speak to Frank Rose...
...this time. A blaze that broke out three weeks ago continues to rage and is the worst conflagration ever faced by the Communist government. The inferno has already killed more than 200 people and seriously injured an additional 221. Despite the valiant efforts of approximately 40,000 soldiers and thousands of civilians, the walls of flame have razed whole villages, scorched nearly 1.5 million of the Daxing'anling forest's 20 million acres and left at least 51,000 people homeless...
...Save Beirut from this inferno," pleaded Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami. Tank and artillery fire on downtown streets prevented fire trucks from reaching dozens of burning buildings in the Hamra district, which includes the Commodore and the American University of Beirut. West Beirut's once fashionable main thoroughfare, Rue Hamra, where the city's upper crust could buy anything from French perfume to Cuban cigars, was reduced to a smoke- filled war zone. Declared a retired Lebanese Army colonel: "It is a fight to the finish...
...siege of Basra seemed to have turned up the pressure considerably on the Iraqi government. In a Baghdad radio address, Saddam referred to Khomeini's "human wave" assaults, accusing the Iranian leader of "appealing, as if the devil were between his eyes, for further men to push into the inferno of death." He repeated his offer for a peace settlement, which the Iranian government promptly rejected. Meanwhile, a government-controlled newspaper published a decree by the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council asking for volunteers aged 14 through 25 to enlist in the army...
...Days after the tragedy, investigators were still searching through the rubble, looking for clues about how the inferno started. Fire officials labeled the blaze suspicious and raised the possibility that it had been set by disgruntled union members engaged in a bitter wage dispute with the hotel. But the latest evidence, according to Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, has led investigators to speculate that hotel security guards may have set the fire in an effort to discredit the union. Said Hernandez Colon: "We suspect there may be arson because of the very tense labor situation that existed...