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...Estonia rolled over and sank in the stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...
...Carter team that Clinton was on the secure telephone in the next room and wanted to speak with one of them. Powell left the room for a 15- to 20-minute talk with the President. His absence rattled Cedras, says Nunn: "General Cedras immediately looked like he had been stricken -- he looked like it was a terrible thing for him. He was increasingly nervous as he waited for General Powell. Finally, he got up and went to the door twice. It became very apparent to me then that he was relying on Colin Powell to convince his wife that...
...polarities of personality types. Ken was the successful photographer with the loving wife. His life was in order." Carter had bounced from romance to romance, fathering a daughter out of wedlock. In 1993 Carter headed north of the border with Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. To make the trip, Carter had taken a leave from the Weekly Mail and borrowed money for the air fare. Immediately after their plane ) touched down in the village of Ayod, Carter began snapping photos of famine victims. Seeking relief from the sight of masses of people starving to death...
These are big and expensive dreams. In the short run the most urgent need is to boost the economy of the stricken Palestinian self-rule zones, where local officials warn of a "revolution of the hungry." Employment in the Gaza Strip is scarce except for jobs in Israel. The $2.5 billion in aid over five years pledged by the international community to build Palestinian houses and schools and train workers for better jobs will help, but only a trickle of funds is flowing in. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open...
Georgia's Flint River crested at 37.15 ft. in Bainbridge, well below the 45- ft. levels that had been predicted. But the statewide death toll rose to 32. Surveying the scene from a helicopter, President Clinton announced a $60 million aid package for the stricken areas of Georgia, Alabama and Florida...