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Wearing T shirts and jogging shorts, they seemed like any other young East Germans enjoying a summer afternoon. Suddenly Maigda Adryan, 22, and three male companions clambered over two fences, plunged into the sludgy river Spree and began swimming to freedom from East to West Berlin...
Those of us who don't buy into the widespread notion that intrinsic value is proportional to cost expected some relief from this decade's shopping spree after the stock market crashed last October. Perhaps now, we thought, the noveau riche investment bankers who have chased the "finer things in life" so vigorously will be forced to take a break. Maybe the heyday of Robyn Leach's pseudo-documentary Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as well as all those economically patronizing advertisements, is finally over...
...Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered Goosen to shoot...
...stepped out of the car and opened fire into the shrieking crowd. Witnesses later told of a "river of blood" in the street. Deshawn Holly, 5, was hit with four bullets but miraculously survived. Stacey Childress, 19, was less lucky. Of the eleven people shot in the five- minute spree, Childress was the sole fatality. The presumed motive for the bloodbath: a drug deal gone...
...struggle has become more desperate than ever in 1988, with the five-year economic expansion losing momentum. Few economists predict an outright recession this year, but the long-running consumer spending spree is expected to taper off considerably. While consumers seem to have taken the stock-market crash in stride, they are becoming worried about the debt load they are carrying. Result: the overabundant department stores, discount outlets and specialty boutiques will be fighting ever more fiercely for consumer dollars. Says Bernard Brennan, chairman of the Montgomery Ward chain: "There's no question about the upheaval in the industry...