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Acting on a tip, the Philippine military sent 100 troops, a tank and an armored personnel carrier to mount a daybreak raid on a small house in Santa Rita, a village north of Manila. The target was Juanito Rivera, 54, allegedly the second ranking leader of the New People's Army. Rivera, fighting pneumonia, had been visiting his mother. Peering out the window, he surveyed the firepower and surrendered...
...filmmakers tried for something more crimson. "We sat in a room for four days," recalls Dearden. "Obviously the present ending makes Alex a complete psycho. It works well as a piece of cinema but makes her less authentic." In July they were back in Mount Kisco, N.Y., for reshooting. Dearden wrote the new ending, "because I wanted to maintain some degree of influence over it." (The original ending may be used when Fatal Attraction is released in Japan next year...
...decided to recruit him for the force, said Bongiorno. He said Captain Henry Greene of the Juvenile Division joined the chief in raising the robot's $17,500 price from local contributors. The East Cambridge savings Bank came through with $15,000, and the Polaroid Foundation and the Mount Auburn Veterans of Foreign Wars supplied the rest of the money...
...Granite St. 5 4 Morse School, Granite St. 5 5 Fire House, River St. and Kelly Rd. 6 1 Camb. Rindge & Latin H.S. (Broadway Entry) 6 2 Gund Hall (Harvard Design School) 48 Quincy St., Room 112 6 3 Fire House, Broadway Entry 6 4 Putnam Apartments, Lobby, 2 Mount Auburn St. 6 5 Martin Luther King School, Putnam Ave. 7 1 Agassiz School, Oxford & Sacramento Sts. 7 2 Agassiz School, Oxford & Sacramento Sts. 7 3 North Ave. Congregational Church Basement 1803 Mass. Ave., Roseland St. Entry 7 4 Peabody School, Linnean St. Playground Entry 7 5 Peabody School, Linnean...
Just a few feet, it seems, can make a difference. Last March, George Wallerstein, an astronomer at the University of Washington, stunned mountaineers and geologists by declaring that the Himalayan mountain known as K-2 might be 36 ft. taller than Mount Everest, long thought to be the world's highest peak. This month, however, an eight-man Italian expedition, led by Geologist Ardito Desio, 90, refuted that claim. Using satellite signals and surveying techniques, they found that Everest towers 29,108 ft. above sea level -- 80 ft. taller than previously believed and 840 ft. higher than...