Lead Stories
During a Tirane, Albania, divorce hearing in July, in which a man was contending that his wife beat him regularly over the course of their two-year marriage, the wife suddenly leaped at the man and beat him unconscious before she was restrained. The judge quickly granted the divorce.
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Self-described “fishing fanatic” Tom Getherall of Long Island, talking to a New York Daily News reporter the day after the crash of TWA Flight 800: “I felt bad when I heard about the wreck, real bad, but to be honest with you, the first thing I wondered was how it would affect the fishing.”
In June a heavily suntan-oiled 19-year-old man fell ten stories to his death while “crabbing”–climbing from balcony to balcony–on a beachfront condominium in Panama City Beach, Florida. Two weeks later in Barnstable, Massachusetts, an 18-year-old man fell to his death while “car surfing”–standing atop a moving car. Also in June at least 15 people dancing on the roofs of two buses en route to an election rally near Dacca, Bangladesh, were killed when the buses passed underneath high-voltage wires.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration by Shawn Belshwender.
