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...from the Japanese Ministry of Transport as well as an advisory team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and a group of experts from the Boeing Co. in Seattle. Initial speculation that the rear cabin door, mentioned by the crew over the radio, may have broken loose and struck the tail above it was abandoned when the door was found amid the wreckage on Mount Osutaka, still firmly attached to a part of the fuselage...
...John Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Almost two centuries before, Philippe Pinel had struck the chains from the inmates of the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris; Kennedy unlocked the doors. What had until then been therapy--getting people out of the hospital and back to their community--became policy. Twenty years ago, almost half a million patients were in state mental hospitals. Three-quarters are now gone...
During that first day Reagan was struck by Gorbachev's willingness to listen. "I'm some judge of acting," he later remarked to reporters, "so I don't think he was acting." Gorbachev looked so intently at Reagan that the President momentarily forgot that the Soviet leader does not speak English, and he kept talking without giving the interpreter a chance to catch up. Gorbachev had to hold up his hand to get Reagan to pause for translation. Reagan later recalled that he had told a couple of jokes and wondered why he did not get a laugh...
...week's end the FBI struck again, arresting Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and naturalized U.S. citizen, charging him with spying for the People's Republic of China. Agents said that Chin, who retired in 1981 from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which monitors radio broadcasts, had been employed by the U.S. in various capacities since World War II and may have been spying for China since the early 1950s...
...Thousands of acres of prime agricultural land were destroyed. The threat of disease had to be curbed, along with a wave of looting and banditry. And there was the political fallout, with many charging that the government of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas had reacted too slowly when the crisis struck...