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...Thursday, Gramm's bet may be a smart one. The overflow crowd, coming at the beginning of a two-day bus tour around the state, caught Gramm's organizers off guard. Extra tables had to be brought in from the local fire department and satellite parking arranged a quarter mile away. "Is this heaven?" wondered a pleased Gramm as he surveyed the gathering. To a Dole operative the next morning, it sounded more like hell. Informed of the attendance figures, she said softly, "Wow, In a roller rink...
...dozens more in the process. Demanding the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya, the rebels then took 165 hostages with them in an attempted escape to Chechnya. En route, however, Russian forces fired upon the rebels, who quickly captured a border village, creating a tense standoff half a mile from Chechnya...
...fast place, many cars use the Autobahn at the same time. This is a very rare state of affairs in Montana and many other Western states. Except during hunting season, it's unusual to see more than two cars at anytime, and that's assuming an 18 mile visibility. Collisions with other cars aren't quite the threat they are on the Autobahn...
...BRUNSWICK, CANADA: Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's attempt to be the first person to circle the globe nonstop in a balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with...
...they arrived in the vicinity of Grenoble in southeastern France, a furtive air crept in to the seasonal image. Near the village of St. Pierre-de-Cherennes, the party halted in the thick of an Alpine forest and walked about half a mile to a clearing. There, 14 members were dosed with sedatives and lay down in a sunburst pattern, most of them with plastic bags over their head. The remaining two then shot the others dead, set the bodies ablaze and killed themselves with pistol shots under the chin. One of the executioners was a policeman, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet...