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...boys' luck ran out. The driver turned out to be an off- duty policeman. Ducking down, the officer drew his .38 pistol, stuck it out the window and fired five times. At least one shot hit Cooney square in the face. Four more bullets strafed the Chrysler as it sped away, Cooney dying in the front seat...
Following the accident, Harvard sped up plans to check campus buildings for danger zones. Now superintendents will be encouraged to inspect their own buildings on a regular basis, using a standard checklists of hazards and acting under the FAS coordination. Although Harvard Insurance Office director Annemarie Thomas said she considered last December creating such a program, she and Parsons said the Carpenter accident hastened their efforts...
...They had wanted something up the stairs a month ago," he said. He said that the Levesque's request did not stem from the April 16 accident but would not say whether the boy's fall may have sped work to place a temporary barrier on the Quincy stairway. Coming up with a permanent solution will be the house office's decision, Christiano said...
...State Trooper Robert Cieplensky, the motorist at a rest area along the New Jersey Turnpike acted strangely. He circled his car several times, peered under it and into several trash cans. Then, apparently sighting the police car, he sped recklessly away. The officer flashed his warning lights, and the driver stopped. Looking into the auto, Cieplensky spotted six canisters protruding from a nylon flight bag on the back seat. Some were labeled BLACK POWDER. The trooper was even more astonished at what he found on the floor: three high-power pipe bombs contained in red fire-extinguisher cases...
...brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...