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...Hong Kong three days of torrential rains-26 inches in all, the heaviest downpour in 83 years-triggered a series of landslides that killed at least 100 people and left another 71 missing. The highest death toll was recorded in the Kowloon quarter, across Hong Kong harbor, where slides swept away a squatters' village. Three buildings on Hong Kong's Victoria Peak, where many of the colony's most expensive residential areas are situated, were also destroyed. One twelve-story building, with all its lights burning, seemed to tilt slowly before it plunged down the hillside like...
...people and embodied confusion, contrasted markedly with the first. The meeting voted first not to continue the strike and then, one hour later after 100 people had trickled out, reversed itself and voted to continue striking indefinitely. The feverish activity of the past week had clearly taken its toll: arguments and counter-arguments were made lackadaisically and motions to adjourn were repeatedly introduced by a tired and bored audience. McGovern's convincing victory in the Massachusetts primary that day had injected a feeble note of optimism in the proceedings, but it was still clear that the activist mood was departing...
...police to arrest any sightseers who ghoulishly descended on the stricken city. All gas service was shut off. The injured filled the city's hospitals and overwhelmed medical facilities at nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. But for many there was no help. At week's end the toll of known dead passed 125, and another 500 were still missing...
...sanctuary in pockets of fresh air. On the third day, the mine's manager, Sir Keith Acutt, announced that all hope was lost, adding, a bit speciously, that indications were that the missing men had "died instantaneously and were not aware of what had happened." The final death toll is expected to exceed 430, making Wankie the fifth worst coalmining disaster in history. At the mine-head, the wailing of the African women continued...
...people and embodied confusion, contrasted markedly with the fist. The meeting voted first not to continue the strike and then, one hour later after 100 people had trickled out, reversed itself and voted to continue striking indefinitely. The feverish activity of the past week had clearly taken its toll: arguments and counter-arguments were made lackadaisically and motions to adjourn were repeatedly introduced by a tired and bored audience. McGovern's convincing victory in the Massachusetts primary that day had injected a feeble note of optimism in the proceedings, but it was still clear that the activist mood was departing...