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...sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores ten years ago. "It's the kind of thing that was waiting to happen," said Florida Governor Bob Graham. "There probably have been other boatloads lost at sea that we never knew about...
Yanelli's exhaustion showed in her team's overall play as Harvard spotted Brown the first game, 8-15. Altman called on Cheng, and the flu-stricken junior responded, lifting the team to a narrow 16-14 second-game victory...
...scene came to the world in that stricken electronic burst that has now, after much experience, become a sort of art form, a genre of the politics of terror and risk and awful surprise: television verite abruptly pouring bulletins into the global village, the images of anchormen nervously fighting for a grip on things. The mind behaved like the hand-held television cameras that reeled wildly from sky to earth and then zoomed in on that Guernica of tumbled chairs and shot bodies and blood smears...
Amid the screams and shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah...
...selling pandemonium continued. The Dow Jones industrial index slumped 14 points in the first 30 minutes, and the morning edition of the New York Post proclaimed, WORLD STOCK MARKET PANIC. Said Gary Ross, research director for the Wood Gundy brokerage firm: "Our retail customers were phoning in panic-stricken...