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...April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon dug up by pigs and dogs...
...dollar values. Newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer are testing $10 cards that would deduct 50 cents each time they are inserted in news racks. No more fumbling for loose change. Telephone companies are issuing cards good for so many minutes of calling time. And a brand-new electronic highway toll system developed by AT&T and Lockheed in Orange County, California, lets drivers pay without stopping. Radio receivers pick up signals from dashboard-mounted cards as vehicles zip through toll lanes. The fees are deducted directly from the drivers' bank accounts. Says Bob Bess, a customer-service representative who lives...
...China Airlines jetliner crashed and burned in Nagoya, Japan, after the pilot radioed the control tower that he was making a second landing attempt. At week's end the death toll...
Perhaps Conley is unaware that hospitals and humanitarian relief centers in this Muslim community have been systematically destroyed and that impartial observers refer to Gorazde as a slaughterhouse. Maybe in a future strip, he will ridicule victims of the current massacre in Kigali, Rwanda, where the death toll now stands at a staggering...
Normally, a three-goal lead would have sufficed against the mediocre Wildcats, whom the Crimson crushed last year. But 80 degree heat and few substitutions took its toll on the team...