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WHEN TWO THUGS SPRAYED A FLAMMABLE LIQUID through a token-booth opening, flicked a match and set Brooklyn subway-token clerk Harry Kaufman on fire--an attack that mimicked a scene in the new movie Money Train--stars Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes expressed deep sorrow and said they were praying for the victim. Columbia Pictures stated it was "appalled and dismayed" at the incident as well...
...another letter to the magazine, D. Grahame Smith '45 criticized the plans, saying, "The proposed new parlors look like an over-designed subway concourse...
...didn't know whom to believe--King, who "couldn't have been telling the whole truth," or Maffia, who "had it in for Don." The alternate also revealed that she had discussed the case with two of the regular jurors, one of whom is an attorney, on a subway ride home earlier in the week--an apparent violation of court instructions not to discuss deliberations. That alone would have been grounds for a mistrial, according to lead prosecutor Paul Gardephe. It was an interesting jury, to say the least. Because laughter could often be heard behind the heavy mahogany doors...
...SUBWAY FIRE KILLS...
...Baku, capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, a malfunctioning electrical cable ignited gases trapped in a subway tunnel, sparking an explosion that killed 288 people and injured 200 more; most of the victims died from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Officials blamed the accident on outdated Soviet equipment...