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...then said, "Yes, after the first six or seven years." His part of East Prussia was taken over by the Soviets, and there was no home for him to return to. The war was half- forgotten for the Americans in 1955, but for one of the former prisoners, Hans Richter, 60, that was the year he fled East Germany with 60 pfennigs in his pocket. He found a job near Wiesbaden as a machinist and three months later sent for his wife Elisabeth...
...Geological Survey said an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, centered about 10 miles northwest of San Salvador, struck at 1:40 p.m. EDT, 11:40 a.m., Salvadoran time. At least seven or eight aftershocks were felt in San Salvador over the next three hours...
...many of them are hardly noticed. But this month five sizable quakes in Southern and Central California have shaken residents, demolished mobile homes and split open at least one road, creating a whole new canyon while startled vacationers watched. Last week's tremor near Bishop registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, a good rumble, and caused unusual concern because it followed so closely after the others...
Director John Carpenter (Halloween, Starman) propels things faster, and way smoother, than a speeding '40s serial. But Co-Screenwriter W.D. Richter, who directed the definitive smarty-pants action picture, Buckaroo Banzai, is the evil genius behind Little China. He has everybody talking as if time-warped in some poverty-row thriller. "My destiny rests in your capable hands," the engaging Dun tells Russell, who is trying to be Harrison Ford trying to be John Wayne trying to be the Surly American. Everything else in the film is at the same three removes from reality. Little China offers dollops of entertainment...
Almost 80 years after the great earthquake of April 1906, which killed more than 700 people, another tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area last week. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, vs. an estimated 8.3 for the '06 temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area...