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Proceeding on his mad mission, Lepine went down to the first-floor cafeteria, where he killed three more women, then up to the third floor, where he gunned down four others. Besides the 14 women killed, 13 people, four of them men, were wounded. Finally the attacker turned the weapon on himself, blowing away part of his head...
...week. The shoulder-held SA-7 is a Soviet-designed cousin of the more advanced U.S. Stinger rocket that significantly boosted the power of the mujahedin in the Afghan war. "These missiles could really make a difference," says a key U.S. Senate staffer. The insurgents offered to sheathe the weapon if the air force stopped bombing and strafing ground targets, but Cristiani is unlikely to accept the deal...
...carefully sheathed passion and cool rationalism make her Planned Parenthood's most persuasive leader and the pro-choice movement's most effective weapon...
...that 4 million people are in danger of starving and will need emergency food aid. An international relief effort is at work, but in the civil war between the rigidly Marxist government of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government-controlled ports. But that could get the agencies banned from vital operations in government areas...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...