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PIPELINE EXPLOSION KILLS 103: A spark from subway construction set off a natural gas explosion this morning in the South Korean city of Taegu. At least 103 people were killed, 60 of them teen-aged students. 200 others were injured. Critics of the government gas monopoly say the government has expanded its network of pipes too quickly, at the expense of safety. South Korean President Kim Young-sam said the explosion was a result of "carelessness...
...Secretaries as well as corporate executives would leave their shoes each day for repair. After the poison-gas attack, I noticed on my arrival at the building that his stand was closed and flowers and gifts had been left there. I was told he had been killed in the subway disaster. To my surprise, when I picked up my copy of Time, on your index page I saw a picture of Watanabe lying on the subway platform. To say the least, I was saddened. Thank you for acknowledging his death. He as well as others who died in this meaningless...
...NERVE GAS IN THE TOKYO subway attack spotlights our increasing vulnerability to high-tech terror acts by fringe groups that are escalating their acts of violence. Our only safeguards against these threats are vastly improved intelligence sources and basic security measures, all of which we seem to regard as more expensive than our system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money...
...leader of the cult suspected in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackin the Tokyo subways died from knife wounds he received yesterday. Hideo Murai, thehead of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's chemical research division, had appeared on Japanese television almost daily since thegas attacksto deny that the cult had anything to do with them. He was attacked yesterday by Hiroyuki Jo, a member of a right-wing group who told police that he was seeking revenge for the subway attack...
TIME Magazine reports that acting on a tip from the Japanese government, the U.S. prepared to raid the cult's midtown Manhattan office in March, before the Tokyo subway attack. An Air Force C-141 transport plane loaded with federal agents took off from Andrews Air Force base, but the raid was stopped when a federal judge would not issue a search warrant. The Associated Press reported today that the receptionist at the office said there was nothing there to interest federal agents. "We have nothing chemical here. Even the cockroaches...