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...even a chopper to land safely in the dark. Expecting no survivors, the searchers spent the rainy night setting up a base in the mountain village of Uenomura, 42 miles from the crash site. Area firemen and Japan's Ministry of Transport also mobilized searchers. But the narrow, serpentine roads and trails winding up from the villages in the valley ended far below the wreckage high on the mountain. Nonetheless, some rescuers set out on foot during the night...
...amid surprisingly tiny pieces of debris. There was no sign of life. No bodies were visible. But this was deceptive. The plane had broken apart, and major parts of it, as well as its human cargo, had been flung into the ravines and gullies on either side of the narrow ridge. The air was filled with a vile stench from the burning plane, in grim contrast to the cool, clear, bracing air of the cloud-shrouded mountaintop...
...London, Benefactors has been staged on Broadway by the same director, Michael Blakemore, with a new and mostly American cast. It builds slowly into a brilliant exposition of the troubled relationship between the elite and the masses, both in the broad public arena and in the narrow but fierce politics of the hearth. Sam Waterston portrays a young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn...
...long-entrenched regulars, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. The result has been legislative paralysis, with the 21 city council votes that Washington controls more than canceled out by the 29 loyal to Vrdolyak. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered special aldermanic elections on March 18 that will probably narrow the margin and could give the mayor the decisive votes. The balloting could ultimately deliver the coup de grace to Chicago's once formidable Democratic machine...
...Defining the Comptroller General's role is a narrow task with wide importance as the Supreme Court considers Gramm-Rudman...