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...Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue after the killing. The Sao Paulo state government posted names of 111 known dead; the true toll might be even higher. Governor Luis Antonio Fleury fired the state security chief who had ordered the assault; some jurists and human-rights activists demanded that Fleury too be ousted...
...eyes dry," said fire fighter Gerard Jurgens. "We find children's toys almost intact, and then suddenly we discover a part of what was a human being -- what can I say?" Workers found the remains of 51 victims, but many others were incinerated in the fiery explosion. The final toll will probably never be known. Many illegal immigrants resided in the complex, and chances are that relatives and friends of the victims may not report them missing for fear of being deported themselves at a time when hostility toward immigrants is on the rise in Holland. Along with Fuchs...
...entities by mid-1993. The healthier operations will be reorganized as Marriott International, a company that will concentrate on operating hotels, resorts and food services. Meanwhile, the successor firm, to be renamed Host Marriott, will retain ownership of the 141 lodging properties and 16 retirement communities, plus airport and toll-road concessions. Host Marriott, whose businesses generated 19% of the existing corporation's 1991 revenues of $9.1 billion, will also assume practically all the existing company's $2.9 billion debt load...
...string of mishaps to plague the insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city's downtown district, costing insurers $300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: $1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined $700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing $1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record...
Hurricanes and other disasters take a toll on insurers...