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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
...organizational success, but not a sales success," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "GM cut sales and manufacturing costs and pruned its operation to the point where chairman Jack Smith even lost his private dining room. But the company's sales are down in the car division, and only their truck division continues to do well." Expect just the opposite when Ford's earnings are released Wednesday, McWhirter says. "Their truck division is setting new sales records, but their earnings should be way down." One reason: the expensive redesign of the Taurus, the company's flagship car, produced an auto that...
...year-old Muslim who worked at the livestock farm near the pit recalls his own jolt one morning, after one of the rare nights in early June when he was not forced to sleep on the premises. On previous occasions, the former truck driver reports, he could hear the sound of the bulldozer working late at night, but he had thought nothing much of it. On the morning in question, he was returning to the job from home and stumbled across a pool of blood on the entrance road...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
Four days after a witness said he saw nine-year-old Amber Hagerman being seized screaming from her bicycle by a stranger in a black pickup truck, a man walking his dog found the child's nude, lifeless body floating in a nearby creek, her throat cut. Police in Arlington, Texas, are investigating all leads...