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...past five years, efforts to improve ties between Roman Catholicism and Judaism have been disrupted by turmoil over the presence of 14 Carmelite nuns at the site of the infamous Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The nuns maintain a convent just outside the camp's barbed-wire perimeter, in a red brick building that once housed canisters of deadly Zyklon B gas. Their mission: to pray for all the Nazis' victims, including the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps. But the establishment of a Christian institution at a place that will forever symbolize Jewish martyrdom has stirred...
...including Franciszek Macharski, whose Cracow archdiocese encompasses Auschwitz, promised that the nuns would move to a new center by February 1989. That deadline passed, but the nuns did not budge and renovations that had begun on their convent continued. The delay provoked strong Jewish protests and demonstrations at the site. Tensions escalated last month when Polish workers at the convent roughed up seven Jewish protesters and dragged them off the property...
With the full-moon tides each May and June, tens of thousands of crabs swarm ashore like magic. Skittering shadows the size of an elephant's hoof, they mingle in piles along the water's edge. The sandy shoreline becomes the site of a vast, squabbling, tumultuous crab orgy...
Hundreds of workers from nearby towns showed up to help, said officials in Guasave, near the crash site 730 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Javier Lopez, the Red Cross duty officer in Los Mochis, 60 miles northeast of the crash site, said most of those on the train had apparently been sleeping and that most of the victims drowned...