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...wrench doors from walls and bars from windows. "In that south cell block," said Policeman Dan Russell, "nearly all of them were dead." Some inmates tried to save themselves from the deadly smoke by stuffing rags beneath their cell doors. Others, said Prisoner Charlie Acevedo, "wrapped their faces with wet towels or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them. The ones that didn't died...
...official explanation was that rain and dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city. ("There's no allegation of impropriety here," insisted Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper Jr. "We've just got a lot of wet ballots.") The count began in earnest on Wednesday, the day, as wags point out, when the real politicking traditionally begins in Chicago. Before anyone could say Richard Daley, the city election board announced it was being hampered by repeated breakdowns of its new computer punch-card system...
...Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more at ease in a wet suit than a trench coat. And the Tuckers (Tim Matheson, Catherine Ricks) on Tucker's Witch (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T), although carrying P.I. credentials, have to rely for investigative inspiration on Ms. Tucker's erratic supernatural skills. All of them are in serious need of some vocational guidance...
...ones that stayed alive got wet towels and wrapped them around their face or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them, "said Charlie Achieved an inmate hospitalized for smoke inhalation. "The ones that didn't died...
...Indochina have, according to a State Department estimate, killed at least 7,000 people. Typically, a plane sweeps in low over an isolated village, spraying a yellowish cloud or dropping bombs that burst in a shower of sticky beads. The rain, says the survivor of an April attack, feels "wet like rain and hot like chilies." The lethal ingredient of yellow rain is a poorly understood class of mycotoxins, or fungal poisons, known as trichothecenes, that apparently kill by rupturing blood vessels and inhibiting the blood's clotting ability. Within minutes of a yellow rain attack, villagers' eyes...