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...just before dawn on Tuesday measured 7.2 on the Richter scale. The numbers alone told the chilling story: some 5,000 confirmed dead, 200 still missing, 25,000 injured, 300,000 homeless. As exhausted relief workers sifted through the rubble of what was once the country's second busiest port, survivors waited stoically in line for hours for a small bottle of water and a fist-size ball of rice. Offers of help came from all over the world, and as each day revealed new horrors, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said that even in a country with a long history...
...Ukraine and Belarus, with most of their equipment, are gone. The former Soviet Army's strength of almost 3 million men is now down to less than 1.5 million. The defense budget has been slashed, leaving units in the field with no money for fuel, fleets rusting in port, planes grounded without spare parts...
...powerful earthquake struck western Japan this afternoon, killing an estimated 75 people, injuring hundreds and trapping hundreds more in collapsed buildings. The quake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by at least 17 aftershocks, hardest in the major port city of Kobe, where fires burned out of control, trains derailed and a major elevated expressway toppled, spilling about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest...
...report issued yesterday by Susan B. Schlesinger, the acting city manager for community development, outlined options the city can take to have a supermarket built in Cambridge-port and Riverside...
From their headquarters in a former brassiere factory in Port-au-Prince, the Green Berets have fanned out to more than 500 villages. Upon arriving, they have often been forced to refashion local government after the soldiers and strongmen who terrorized the area faded away like zombies in the night, leaving behind a brutalized population. In Mirebalais, the prodemocracy deputy mayor was beheaded and his body thrown into a nearby river. At the prison in Les Cayes, inmates were treated so abominably that one man's spine was visible through the lesions on his back...