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...repeated trips into the stand to rescue trapped fans. Terry Yorath, the Bradford coach, suffered cuts on his face as he tried to help people escape. "The fire simply erupted at the back of the stand and seemed to spread everywhere inside seconds," Yorath said. "We were all panic- stricken and had no idea what to do." The fire started under the grandstand floorboards, and authorities are investigating the possibility of arson. The estimated toll: 40 dead, 200 injured. Said a police spokesman: "As far as we know it is the worst fire ever in a British football stadium...
...trouble. He gives them the hard facts. 'Shoot the messenger!' they're yelling. Don Regan, why talk about him? He's not my favorite, but that's beside the point. He sold the President the idea that the deficit has nothing to do with interest rates. So I've stricken him off. I don't listen to him or I'm liable to get mixed up on Economics 101, O.K.? So who's in charge of economic policy? Who are these people...
Suddenly two men on a motorcycle appeared behind the car, and the man on the back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
Peking reacted to South Korea's harboring of the stricken vessel by putting its forces on alert; Seoul quickly did the same. Three Chinese warships, sent to retrieve the fugitive boat, entered South Korean waters, and the Koreans sent ships and jet fighters to intercept the interlopers. But the tense situation was quickly defused by U.S. diplomacy late on Friday. "We were asked to convey messages between the Chinese and the Koreans," commented a Washington official. Though China and South Korea do not maintain diplomatic relations, they have been edging toward a rapprochement. Neither side, it seems, wanted to allow...
...only university battling the rubeola virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, students have been stricken at Oberlin College in Ohio, Ohio State and the University of Michigan. Worst hit of all was Principia College of Elsah, Ill., a tiny Christian Science-affiliated school where at least 96 students have been infected and two have died, apparently from complications. (Rubeola, which tends to be more serious in adults than in children, can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis...