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...happened two weeks ago, but because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
...through the ceiling of the home of Wanda and Robert Donahue as they were watching M*A*S*H on television. The rock landed under the dining room table and no one was injured. In April 1971, a 12½-oz. meteorite ripped into a Wethersfield home about a mile from where the Donahues live. Scientists welcome such hits because meteorites provide valuable information about the solar system, and Wethersfield II is being shipped to a Washington State laboratory for study. The odds left the experts awestruck. Said one geologist: "To have two strike the same town is almost incomprehensible...
...chairman of the committee designated to organize Brezhnev's funeral, Andropov gave a brief oration extolling the dead leader, who lay in state less than a quarter-mile away in the House of Trade Unions' Hall of Columns, a handsome neoclassical building that was once a club for the Russian aristocracy. "A most outstanding political leader of our times, our comrade and friend, a man with a big soul and heart, sympathetic and well-wishing, responsive and profoundly humane, is no more," Andropov intoned. After calling for a minute of silence, he continued: "Leonid Ilyich said that not a single...
...center of this confusing situation sits the $2.4 million Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) built by Radcliffe in 1979 to give Quad students a gym closer to their Houses than the Indoor Athletic Building, which lies half mile away. Until this term, everything seemed fine with more than 1000 Quad residents taking full advantage of the Q-RAC's spacious multipurpose gym floor, fully equipped exercise room, and the College's only real racquetball courts...
Like many a cross country runner, Regan did not plan to be a 10-kilometer expert. His earliest contact with longer distances came when he and his younger brother Mark joined a local YMCA's distance program. This consisted of two-mile workouts, "usually once a week," Regan remembers, since they were only in the third and fifth grade at the time...