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Chief among the accused were John Stewart Service and John Paton Davies. Both had been the children of Protestant missionaries near the southwestern city of Chengtu. Both spoke impeccable Chinese. The dispatches they sent during the war are now regarded as models of probity and insight, cited at length in most histories of modern China...
Then on Friday night, after relieved city and county officials had left their offices, what everyone had feared finally happened. Driving to local high school football games scheduled that evening, thousands of teen-agers and adults were clogging the highways of southwestern Jefferson County, a largely blue-collar section. Honking their horns to signal their opposition to busing, many of them headed toward Valley High School. One youth parked in the middle of the highway−halting traffic completely−and to the cheers of onlookers ripped the hood from his car. Suddenly the mood changed, and the crowd began...
Although Mount Baker has not erupted in more than 100 years, USGS geologists say that it is not the only U.S. volcano that presents a threat. After studying the extensive volcanic deposits around Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington, they warned that it could erupt again before the end of the century. Even if no such outburst occurs at Mount Baker, say the scientists, the mountain's heat could melt enough snow and ice on its slopes to cause dangerous mud slides and floods...
IOWA FADED INTO the night and we were in Illinois moving toward Chicago for what seemed like a long time. They dropped me off in the suburbs at a subway station, and before too long I was on a bus line to Niles, coursing through the backroads of Southwestern Michigan. I was home that afternoon and the river still swirled brown there, down the hill. It was a good feeling to know it was there when I slept, now 90 hours out of San Francisco but somehow a long way from home...
Saturday night, March 1, was quiet in Shelton, an industrial town of 29,000 in the Naugatuck Valley region of southwestern Connecticut. At the Sponge Rubber Products factory, which stretched for two blocks along the Housatonic River, only two guards and a boiler operator were on duty. Suddenly three men, armed and wearing ski masks, appeared inside the building. They abducted the three employees and drove them to a nearby woods, where they taped them to a tree. One gunman hinted to his captives that he and his companions were connected with the radical Weatherman movement...