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...regarded by many as a haven for neo-Nazis, its gatherings inevitably bring protests. After demonstrators held a peaceful rally, several hundred hooligans, mostly young, some wearing hoods and black leather jackets, began hurling bottles and stones. In response, the police brought out a water-cannon truck. As it sped to the scene, the vehicle ran over a protester, killing...
...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
Weir was abducted in May 1984, after more than three decades of missionary work in Lebanon. Grabbed from his wife's side, he was forced to the floor of a car, which then sped away. Although he said he was not physically abused, he spent a year in solitary confinement and was not even allowed to see a newspaper until last July 2. He was let go on Sept. 14, after 495 days in captivity. Flown in a U.S. Government plane to Norfolk, Va., he was met by his family and State Department debriefers. Word began leaking out, first...
...just as handily last week, but for a fourth term, was Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, 67. Young won renomination to serve another four years against a dozen opponents who argued that he had stayed past his time. A skilled assembler of support among labor, civic and business leaders, Young sped away with 64% of the Motor City's vote...
...Wednesday, the seven-coach Sud Express, carrying hundreds of Portuguese emigrant workers, pulled out of the main station at Oporto, on Portugal's Atlantic coast, and headed east, destination Paris. Two hours later, a westbound local rumbled out of the Guarda station, some 80 miles southeast of Oporto, and sped toward its final destination, the city of Coimbra. But a fatal miscalculation, which railway officials later attributed to "human error," permitted the two trains to pursue their opposing courses along the same track...