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Such yearnings help explain the torrent of emotion that erupted when Mandela arrived in New York City last week on the first leg of a twelve-day, eight- city U.S. tour. For one brief, wistful moment, a city that had been pounded by a series of violent racial incidents seemed to vibrate with one voice shouting "Mandela!" More than 750,000 people lined the streets of lower Manhattan as Mandela sped by in a bulletproof glass chamber borne on a flatbed truck. At a rally on the steps of City Hall, Mandela was presented with the key to the city...
...flash flood also turned nearby Pipe Creek into a torrent, damaging 50 buildings. Half of one house was found lodged in a bridge, 20 ft. above the receding water. As a dazed man looked for his home, a searcher observed, "He doesn't know his family is dead." No one was certain how many of the 52 people listed as missing might have survived. But by week's end 18 bodies had been found...
...past ten years, police have recorded at least nine desecrations of Jewish cemeteries in France. None of those episodes provoked the torrent of outrage unleashed by the grisly find two weeks ago in a graveyard in Carpentras in southern France. Investigators speculate that four vandals set upon the Jewish burial ground in the hours before dawn, shattering tombstones with sledgehammers and iron bars. The desecraters, who are still unidentified, dragged one woman's body halfway out of her grave. They also exhumed the corpse of an 81-year-old man buried only two weeks earlier and impaled...
...office, but he built a great career around being tapped on the shoulder. Twice since leaving the vice presidency he has balked at pleas from Minnesota Democrats to run for the Senate, but his time may have come again. Next month the Senate ethics committee will hear a torrent of accusations against Republican David Durenberger, including a charge that he accepted $100,000 in outside income through a dubious book deal. Word is that he faces expulsion if he doesn't resign. Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich would appoint a replacement, and Mondale is letting it be known that he would...
...Alvarez Machain's testimony could shed light on Camarena's death, his clandestine delivery to El Paso, kept secret from the government of President Carlos Salinas, has aggravated already tense U.S.-Mexican relations. Last week, as word of his capture leaked out, Mexican newspapers and politicians let loose a torrent of protest against high-handed Yanqui tactics. "The intervention in Mexican territory, once again, is extremely dangerous for the sovereignty of the nation," complained the national daily Excelsior. Unfazed by the diplomatic heat, DEA agents hint that more snatches may be in the works. They plan to pay a bounty...