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Finally, the gang proceeded to actual assembly of the bombs. Last Wednesday two men brought to the Queens safe house diesel fuel from a gas station in Yonkers, a northern suburb, operated by one of the suspects, Mohammad Saleh. Some of the gang also reportedly made specific preparations to flee the country within a few days. The FBI and city police, who had been watching the assembly through concealed television cameras (which later pictured their own raid on the factory) and listening through monitoring devices, decided they had better move immediately. Said FBI special agent in charge James...
...contemplate emigration. Some, like Wilhelm Verwoerd, 29, grandson of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and head of the government that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political conversion to fellow Afrikaners. "I am much more than just the grandson of a symbol," he told them. "I am the symbol of a new generation who wants to stand up for democracy." Whatever their voting preferences, South Africans have good reason...
Shortly after that triumph, Masako's life changed. Her father accepted an invitation to teach at the Harvard Law School, and the family packed up and moved to the Boston suburb of Belmont. Perhaps because she was challenged by a language that she knew but was not expert at, she became serious, studious and focused. The infielder and the would-be vet gradually receded. Her adviser, Lillian Katz, says Masako "never needed moral support. She knew her own worth, and she knew that she was her parents' pride and joy." Belmont has reason to remember its former high-schooler. Since...
That is not the way it worked out. In 1962 Sue and Les had a son Dan, and a little later moved to the blue-collar suburb of Clawson, Michigan. To make ends meet, Les worked 12 to 16 hours a day. Every morning Sue would meet friends for breakfast at the Kresge coffee shop nearby, then set out on her route as an Avon Lady. Since her eyesight prevented her from getting a driver's license, she rode a little Amigo scooter. "We were always telling her, 'God, would you slow that thing down?' " says Mary. Sue's customers...
...suburb of Paris, a gunman toting 21 sticks of dynamite took a nursery- school class hostage, demanding $18.5 million. After 46 hours the gunman dozed off, and police shot him dead; no one else was harmed...