Alcalá 1986

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so with a fury chat made it one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded hi tory. A rosy flare spurted about 8,000 feet in the air, and a mile-wide wall of mud and ash poured over the countryside, obliterating towns like Armero, where a maiority of its 22,500 residents perished. Sandra was one of the lucky ones. Saved from the mud along with two oth– er youngsters, she was taken co an emer– gency field hospital where she sipped yo– gurt and eagerly asked for more. Lacer she inquired, "Where is my mama?" Her mother was presumed to have died, and Sandra, along with ocher young survivors, in all likelihood will be adopted by an– other family from her village. Ever so gingerly, French rescue work– ers lifted the frail but living body ofJe us Rodrigues from the rubble of what had once been Mexico City's General Ho pi– ca!. Jesus, just eight days old, was one of 24 newborns who survived burial alive by the August earthquake that devastated the world's most populated city. The child's rescue came by chance. Five days after the earthquake a sound detector picked up faint cries coming from beneath che sixth floor of the nine– floor hospital. Working with their hands-

even pickaxes could have caused a col– lapse- the crew coiled through the night. By sunrise they had their reward. Severely bruised and suffering from dehydration and a dislocated hipbone, Jesus was breast-fed by ocher mothers in the hospi– tal. Waiting at home for his arrival were his father, a 36-year-old gas station at– tendant, sister and two brothers.

The image of 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami being plucked by a helicopter lifeline from the carnage of JAL Flight 123 lase August 12th has come co repre– sent not only the vase loss of life from che worse single airplane crash in aviation his– tory but also the near miracle that anyone survived at all. le was, in fact, a year of record air crash deaths: 520 died in this one; four survived. Keiko's family had boarded the flight for Tokyo after a fam. ily vacation on the island of Hokkaido. When the plane crashed, Keiko was thrown into a tree. She said that her father and sister survived the crash but that when she awoke the next morning there was what appeared to be a towel in front of her eyes. Fourteen hours later she was discovered. After three months in the hospital, where she underwent an operation for a paralyzed arm, Keiko was released. Her ordeal over, he wanted none of the at– tendant celebncy. Paramount in her mind was going back co school and her studies. "From now on I'll be with my grand– mother and brother," she aid. "People of the pre s, plea e leave me alone." When Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz, long dormant crater, finally awoke, it did

TERRORISM Rome. Vienna. Beirut. Cairo. Athen . Achille Lauro. Abu ,dal. Gadd,fi. All connote one thing: TERROR[ M . Th, year, the rerron t appeared on center rage more often than any )•ear in recent history. The terrorist continued to vent anger toward the We t, 1ncrea ing the rage pointed at the Travellers on planes or cruises were not exempt from the anger pointed at the West The pa engers aboard the Achille Lauro suffered at the hands of PLO affiloated cap – tor . I rael 's El Al was targeted for pecoal attention also. All in all, terrorism became a more pre ing problem. This year al o aw the n e in way of combatting this problem. More nations are using counter -intelligence m find out the whereabout of the variou groups perpetrating these acts. The u ed it power to capture the Achille Lauro h11ackers. The G G9 of Germany ha repped up the training of other counter terron t operation . The .. has strengthened ,r pec,al force and is con ,denng the for– ward deployment of the e. The rose of rerron m and the rise of effort co counter this threat have been attention getter rh,s year.

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