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...worst quake to hit Europe in decades.* In Bucharest, at least 500 died and 2,600 were injured, and there were fears that the death toll in all of Rumania might reach into the thousands. The oil-producing center of Ploesti, 35 miles north of Bucharest, also suffered damage, and the seismic spasm affected Rumania's neighbors. In Bulgaria, 20 people were reported killed, and more than 100 were injured in Yugoslavian border towns. Chandeliers swayed as far away as Rome and Naples; in Moscow, buildings trembled and pictures shook off walls...
...Last year, serious earthquakes struck Guatemala, killing 22,000; the area surrounding Tientsin in China, with a toll of perhaps 665,000; Mindanao, 8,000; Turkey. 5,000: and northern Italy...
...service interrupted their slumber will no doubt be pleased by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes's announcement this week that the bells will only ring two minutes in the future, a 60 per cent reduction of the traditional five-minute peal. Ask not, of course, for whom the bells toll...
Some estimates placed the week's death toll as high as 3,000, including 2,000 officers and men from Amin's 21,000-man army and 700 from the national police. In one particularly vengeful operation, Amin's marines were said to have killed every civilian they could find in Akoroko, the native village of Milton Obote...
...poor Mrs. Fell's husband. Appearances on television and radio talk shows, interviews with journalists, a deluge of fan mail since the recent article about his work in Reader's Digest--all were taking their toll. To make matters worse, the first edition of his book had already sold out. Now there was no way to satisfy the growing demand for copies until the second printing...