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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other governments pitched in as well. France sent 280 rescue specialists, including 60 doctors and 30 search dogs. West Germany dispatched 56 members of a disaster-relief unit, along with five paramedics and twelve search dogs, heavy salvage gear, a medical emergency center, a mobile kitchen and medical supplies. From Britain came four London firemen, who brought with them nine thermal cameras, which use infrared sensors to detect the body heat of buried survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Miracles Amid the Ruins | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

Maricela Alcaraz, 22, was at breakfast with her mother and two younger brothers in their apartment on the south side of the city. The lamp above the kitchen table began swinging back and forth, casting strange shadows on undulating walls. "Oh my God!" Maricela shouted. Her mother jumped up, ordered the children to go into a bedroom and stay together. They could hear doors banging as the building trembled. "The whole world was shaking," Maricela recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

TIME Reporter Andrea Dabrowski was pouring coffee in the kitchen of her apartment in the center of the capital. "I thought I was sick," she said. "There was this terrible dizzy feeling. Some way, I stumbled to the doorway. The buildings across the street were swaying, really swaying. It was like being rocked in a boat. There were all these sounds of cracking and crackling, and the electric lines popping. I yelled out, 'God save me!' " The quake knocked many of the city's radio and television stations off the air. One exception was Channel 13, which provided the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...born designer who with her husband Bernard turned her Victorian-inspired, flower-sprigged fabrics into ruffled, romantic fashions and a multimillion-dollar international clothing and housewares empire; of head injuries sustained in an accidental fall; in Coventry, England. What began in 1953 with tea towels silk-screened on the kitchen table of their London flat and sold to local shops became in 1967 the first Laura Ashley shop in London and is today a family-run business encompassing more than 200 shops from Milan to Melbourne, 70 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1985 | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

When New York public health inspectors shut down "K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen" last spring, the hungry followers of gastronome Paul Prudhomme howled: their cry was so vociferous that Mayor Edward I. Koch intervened to lift the restaurant's suspension. And, the next day, the story appeared on the front page of The New York Times...

Author: By M. Creosote, | Title: Inman Square Turns to Cajun Cooking | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

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