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...cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture or transport of an explosive...
Botha gave his people exactly what they wanted. For two hours he tore down critics and shored up Afrikaner morale. Defiantly, he urged his white followers to "shed the spirit of defeatism and doubt" in the face of economic sanctions. Defensively, he railed against an "international conspiracy" that aimed to undermine South Africa's sovereignty. Cunningly, he insisted that South Africa had "outgrown apartheid" and simultaneously vowed to submit any agreements negotiated with blacks to a white referendum...
...Miller rewrote the show, and last week Britain's National Theater gave it a handsomely designed, intelligently acted and altogether persuasive production -- not a revival, because in content, style and spirit this Clock amounts to new work. It is a robust, expressionistic celebration of a time that tore America apart yet paradoxically brought it together, an all but unique moment when millions of individual experiences coalesced into a collective national experience...
...ugly scourge of old was drought and dust storms that tore the earth apart. And it is again this summer in the South. Yet that is temporary. The more menacing scourge is verdant bounty as far as the eye can see in the nation's midsection and diminishing markets for the rich harvests. Dan Rather and his combat jacket have long ago left the hogpens to report on other worldly terrors, like the wedding of Andy and Fergie. Hollywood's Jessica Lange and Country are wilted memories. Farm foreclosures are too common to rate as pop drama any longer...
...crew cabin tore loose at 45,000 feet, arcedupward to about 65,000 feet, and then began a2-minute, 45-second plunge to the Atlantic Ocean,Kerwin said...