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...minutes before the expected adjournment of last week's city council meeting in Mount Pleasant, Iowa (pop. 7,300), a man in a parka and camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
Last week Brazil's two leading unions tried to mount a major protest against Sarney's program, calling for a 24-hour general strike. Union officials argued that workers were hit the hardest by Sarney's reforms, but the public seemed to disagree. According to the government, only about 10% of Brazil's 20 million salaried workers walked off their jobs. The President felt vindicated. Said he: "Never has Brazil had a government that is so democratic or so identified with helping the poor...
...Grand Hotel, but life at Vermont's quaint old Stratford Inn is far from routine. For example, here comes the hotel's slow-witted handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) to unveil the latest product from his workshop: a wooden replica of Mount Rushmore featuring the face of Mr. Green Jeans. Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy), the pampered Wasp princess who works at the inn as a maid, goes through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order...
Police tentatively identified the man as Mark N. Coleman, whose red Subaru swerved through the intersection of Mount Auburn and Dewolfe Street 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning and crashed into the church...
Witnesses said that the Subaru was travelling down Mount Auburn Street at a fast speed and swerved to avoid a car that pulled out from in front of Sage's Jr. Market. The driver lost control of the vehicle while passing through the intersection and collided into a brick wall of the church, knocking down a parking meter...