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...wheelchair-bound residents. She patted spotted hands and spoke directly into hard-of-hearing ears. It was old hat to 95-year-old British-born Letitia Whitty: "When I was 6 1/2, my father took me to the streets to see Queen Victoria passing by. I wouldn't wave at that ugly old woman." She did, however, talk animatedly with a pretty young one about English gardens. For nearly an hour, these faltering men and women in the shadow of life became Washington's brightest social elite, the recipients of a Princess's interest...
Adorned in a flowing blue robe and matching skullcap, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh stepped out of a Portland courthouse last week into one of his sect's 93 Rolls-Royces and was whisked to the airport. After a quick wave and a bow to disciples from his 1,300-member commune, the guru, who had lived in the U.S. since 1981, boarded a chartered airplane and departed for his native India. Unless he gets written permission from the U.S. Attorney General, he will not be allowed to visit the U.S. for five years. Said the Bhagwan: "I never want to return...
...mudslide that entombed Rodríguez cut through Armero like a liquid scythe. Henao later recollected that the wave "rolled into town with a moaning sound, like some sort of monster." Luckily, her home was on a hill. "Houses below us started cracking under the advance of the river of mud," she recalled. She grabbed her children and climbed to the roof of her home. As they watched, more than 80% of the roughly 4,200 buildings in Armero simply vanished into the torrents of slime. Said she: "It seemed like the end of the world...
Those with the opportunity and the presence of mind, like Henao, rushed desperately onto rooftops, or clambered into the branches of nearby trees. Some ran for the city's highest ground, its hilltop cemetery, or found other spots above the flood crest. Survivors later testified that the first wave of mud to hit the town was ice cold, like the mountain snows that spawned it. As it rolled onward, the mud carried along more and more of the inner fire of Nevado del Ruiz, until finally the cascade was smoking...
...tidal wave rolled on, submerging the neighboring village of Santuario (pop.: about 1,400) and two other small communities. To the west, on the opposite slope of Nevado del Ruiz, a second avalanche broke loose and headed for Chinchiná, a city of about 34,000. Some 200 families fled the area. Chinchiná, six miles from the base of the volcano, escaped major damage, but civil authorities estimate that 1,090 people died in the immediate area...