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Tuesday, January 19. 1993
Seven die in train crash
The Associated Press
GARY, Ind. — One commuter train sidewiped another at a narrow trestle yesterday, ripping open cars like a big brazor blade" and killing seven people, an official said. Nearly 70 were injured, two critically.
"I the glass was flying. It was a tremendous impact," said Margaret McNeill, a passenger in the front car of one of the trains who walked uninjured from the crash site.
Jane Mitchell, another uninjured passenger, said "We hung on, and there were people flying around."
Passenger Abir Khater said, "There was panic and people were saying 'ny get
out, get out,' and
other people
saying 'sit down,
just sit down."
The eastbound and westbound trains collided shortly after 9:30
a. m., said John Parsons, representative for Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District, which owns the Chicago-to-South Bend rail line. The cause of the crash was under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
About 100 people were on the trains, a two-car eastbound from Chicago and a three-car from South Bend, Parsons said. Gary is about 30 miles southeast of downtown Chicago.
The trains crashed where two tracks overlap in a gantlet west of a trestle that is too narrow for two trains to pass. It was unclear if both were moving or one was stopped waiting to cross the trestle.
The front cars were mangled, and the metal on one side ripped away. Seats were ripped from their moorings.
"The walls were ripped open, creating an effect like a big razzor blade."
later said one victim apparently was counted twice.
He said 23 people were killed and 69 injured, two critically. Perry initially reported eight deaths but
Several of the dead were decapitated. Perry said.
Rescuers passed stretches through gaping holes in one of the cars to remove the dead and injured, some of whom had been trapped in the wreckage.
Rescuers used ropes to steady themselves up and down the embankment next to the tracks, which was snow-dusted and slippery in the 20-degree weather. Some of the injured were pulled from the train by hook-and-ladder fire trucks and taken to a makeshift helicopter landing area in a parking lot.
Clinton visits his alma mater,Georgetown
The Associated Press
'WASHINGTON — President-elect Bill Clinton paid a visit to Georgetown, his former campus yesterday and vowed to learn from Martin Luther King Jr. in ascending "the mountaintop of American democracy."
Clinton made his pre-inaugural rounds with high spirits, despite new U.S. bombings in Iraq.
"We have much work to do against stuff odds with out a day to waste," he said in a speech on the slain civil rights leader's birthday.
Just two days from being sworn in, Clinton touched a variety of bases, both old and new — students, diplomats, ordinary people he had met on the campaign trail — as he moved about his new neighborhoods.
But early in the day, Clinton himself took note of the troubling shadow cast by another day of U.S.led air attacks in Iraq.
He used a get-acquainted morning session with the capital's diplomatic corps to emphasize his continued support for President Bush's use of force to persuade Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions.
"The American people have called for a new administration, yet there is an essential continuity in our foreign policy," Clinton told about 200 ambassadors and other diplomats from foreign countries.
The first Baby Boomer to become president, the 1968 graduate of Georgetown University was enthusiastically received when he and Vice President-elect Al Gore visited his alma mater.
"We ran to give you a better future but also to challenge you to build that future," he told about 1,000 students and Georgetown alumni who crowded a lawn in front of the dormitory where Clinton resided as an undergraduate.
Clinton told the students the "incredible energy that was generated among young people" during his campaign echoed the "feelings that all of us had, my classmates and I, when we came here in the early '60s. I think we genuinely rekindled them among millions of young Americans."
Some in the crowd serenaded him with the Gergetown fight song while others shouted, "We want Bill," and "Hillary! Hillary!" There were even shouts of, "Al, Al, you're our man" for the Harvard-educated Gore.
Later, Clinton paid solenm tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., on the holiday celebrating his birthdate, in a speech at Howard University. He said one of his great regrets as a southerner was that he never met the civil rights leader.
"Two sons of the South are about to assume the mountainpost of American democracy; a president from a small town in Arkansas, a vice president from the hills of Tennessee, both believers in the dream and the obligations that Martin Luther King spoke of," Clinton said.
The comment echoed King's remarks in Memphis, Tenn., the night before his assassination in 1968, that God had "allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over and I've seen the promised land."
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First group of Marines answer critics, prepare for return to the United States from Somalia
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — As the first U.S. Marines prepare to leave, they say they have done as much as they can bring some law and order to Mogadishu, and the time has come to return home.
workers they sought to protect.
They said they would leave today without bitterness despite coming under gunfire from Somalis and critical fire from some of the relief
As they packed their duffle bags yesterday, Marines from
Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Regiment, talked about some of their experiences in Somalia and answered their critics.
Shots fired at Joey Buttafuoco's auto shop; police say his father received telephone threat
The Associated Press
Baldwin, N.Y. — A shot was fired yesterday into the auto body shop owned by Joseph Buttafuco, Amy Fisher's alleged lover, police said.
Buttfaucoo's father, Casper, received a call Sunday night from an anonymous caller saying his son would be shot Monday, Bartelomeo said. Police said they had no suspects.
Buttafouca and three others were inside Complete Auto Body shop at that time of the shooting, but no one was injured. Det. Charles Bartelomeo said.
Butuffafoe's wife, Mary Jo, was shot in front of her Long Island home by Fisher, who allegedly was upset that he had ended their affair. Fisher, 18, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of assault.
Kansas company names Utah heathiest state in the West; Kansas finishes 23rd in the survey
The Associated Press
Utah and two adjacent western states are the healthiest in the nation, according to a Kansas company that ranked all 50 states on 22 factors.
Florida was last in the health rankings by the Morgan Quitno Corp. and Kansas finished 23rd.
drink, smoke or overeat," Morgan said. "The state has an unusually healthy population."
Right behind Uah in the rankings were Idaho, Wyoming, Hawaii and Washington.
The survey ranked the states on such factors as birth rate, infant mortality rate, death rate by AIDS and availability of hospitals.
"The folks in Utah don't seem to
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