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...murder spree seemed well planned. At 7:30 p.m. last Friday, bands of local Sindhis sped through the Pakistani city of Hyderabad and opened fire on crowded street markets, movie houses and bus stops. They even attacked a wedding party. The massacre claimed the lives of at least 160 Mohajirs, a people who immigrated to Pakistan after India was partitioned in 1947. Then came the revenge. In Karachi, 100 miles away, gangs of Mohajirs sprayed Sindhi neighborhoods with gunfire, killing about 50 people...
...part, the vice president used great detail to describe the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree in Maryland last year several months after being released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough...
Wall's spending spree is motivated partly by deadlines, he acknowledges. The regulator wants to expedite bailouts before the current fiscal year ends, on Sept. 30, so that next year's FSLIC spending will stay within the confines of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Wall's next rescue candidate could be a whopper: the American Savings and Loan Association of Stockton, Calif., whose bail-out may cost $2 billion...
...East Germans have escaped over the Berlin Wall this year, six by swimming across the Spree. What made last week's exploit so remarkable is that Adryan and company plunged into the river at one of its most heavily guarded points, and in broad daylight. Perhaps, as they had hoped, the presence of so many Western tourists, including an alert British visitor who videotaped the entire escape, deterred the guards from shooting...
...Western diplomat in Burundi denied seeing evidence of a military killing spree. "The idea that the army is massacring the Hutu is just not what we're hearing here," he said. "Nongovernmental sources, including missionaries coming down from the north, say the army is acting with a great deal of restraint...