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Explosives experts said if 1000 pounds of dynamite were detonated around the monument only moderate structural damage would result However, hundreds of pieces of shrapnel could be thrown up to 1800 feet and the blast would be strong enough to break windows in the White House 2000 feet away...
Scores of tourists managed to get out when the siege started. Nearby government buildings were evacuated; thousands of employees were sent home. Since the White House was in shrapnel range, President Reagan stayed on the side facing away, toward Pennsylvania Avenue...
Vanserg's offices are uniquely responsible for the hall's bizarre character: they are strewn about the building with all the order of shrapnel in a minefield...
Casual acts of murder were still taking place as the roundup progressed. One man, who had hid in a partly bombed building, later related how he had peered through a small shrapnel hole while militiamen barged into a small shop across the street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken...
DIED. Loyal Davis, 86, Chicago brain surgeon and adoptive father of Nancy Reagan; of congestive heart failure; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Developer of a special shrapnel helmet for air crewmen in World War II, he was president of the American College of Surgeons in 1962-63. Davis criticized shoddy medical training, which, he said, meant that half the operations in the U.S. were performed by inadequate surgeons. An outspoken political conservative, he influenced Nancy (whom he adopted when she was 14 after he married her mother) and later his son-in-law Ronald Reagan. Said Nancy of him last...