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There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist...
...raft consisted simply of two massive truck inner tubes encased in a frame of iron and wood, all covered with Styrofoam. The young men, who range in age from 20 to 30, had planned this trip for weeks. To train for the adventure, each went out daily on an inner tube to fish, both at night and by day. The men did not give their names. One says he is sure they will make it to Florida. A few years ago, they would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol...
General Motors reached a tentative settlement with the striking United Auto Workers union, which had crippled the company's car and truck production. The two-day strike by 3,500 workers at a plant in Anderson, Indiana, led to the shutdown of eight other plants in the Midwest and Canada. By midday Thursday nearly 30,000 workers were sent home or told not to report for duty...
Britton died last Friday with his liver whole. Moments after he and the elderly couple acting as his volunteer guards arrived in the parking lot of the Ladies Clinic of Pensacola, a gunman ran up to the driver's side of their blue pickup truck. The killer was no prudent sharpshooter: he got quite close with a 12-gauge shotgun and blasted the faces of the two men with round after round of buckshot...
...were back in business last week attacking Jewish organizations. London was rocked by two blasts, one from a car bomb outside the Israeli embassy and a second at the headquarters of a Jewish charity. All told, 19 people were injured. The blasts came just a week after a truck bomb set off outside a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed at least 86 people. After the attacks in Britain, governments around the world went on the alert and threw up security cordons at Israeli embassies and offices...