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...cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this January, the pilot of a Tupolev-154 ignored a warning from a flight engineer that one of the engines was "dangerous." One hour later, the aircraft caught fire in midair and crashed, killing all 120 people on board...
...Coach Frank Sullivan and his team would take part in March Madness if it won the Ivy title--but that's a big if. And with no Fab Five or even Fab One in sight, the crown is about as far away from Cambridge as the Siberian capital of Irkutsk...
...Coach Frank Sullivan and his team would take part in March Madness if it won the Ivy title--but that's a big if. And with no Fab Five or even Fab One in sight, the crown is about as far away from Cambridge as the Siberian capital of Irkutsk...
...Cairo taxied to a spot between two El Al jumbo jets that were already disgorging onto the tarmac a profusion of joyous, exhausted humanity. Standing in line for customs, I was engulfed by a sibilant jabber that I recognized from other journeys -- to Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Baku, Irkutsk...
...republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...