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When the plane touched down, bringing home four nationalist terrorists newly released after more than two decades in U.S. prisons, the crowd tore down protective fences and surged forward, chanting "?Viva Puerto Rico Libre...
...freighter onto a pier in Mobile Bay and blew a DC-3 half a mile from a hangar to a road, where it landed upside down with its tail curled around its fuselage. Frederic uprooted century-old oak trees and heavily damaged historic buildings along Government Street. It tore the roofs off houses on the nearby resort of Dauphin Island and carried away most of the eight-mile causeway to the mainland. Lamented one Mobile resident: "Landmarks we have known for years just aren't here any more...
...Culdrose and Plymouth, where survivors were treated or dispatched to hospitals, battered yachtsmen gave firsthand accounts of suffering and sorrow. Alan Bartlett, skipper of the British Trophy, recounted that his boat's life raft tore apart like tissue: "It was horrific to watch as men dropped into the sea, drifted away and drowned. They were my friends...
...passengers were forced to strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were few survivors of Treblinka. In shame the Germans later tore down the camp's structures, and now all that stands on the bare acreage is a kind of modern Stonehenge...
...another case he heard the murder trial of two white youths for beating an Indian who later died of brain damage. When Moran sentenced the boys-six years for the leader, two years for the other -some Indians were furious and tore down the American flag outside the courthouse...