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Immediately after the South Tower collapsed, many NYPD radio frequencies became overwhelmed with transmissions relating to injured, trapped, or missing officers.
The WP devotes its front-page quake coverage to the story of 40-year-old Yuksel Er, who was pulled from the wreckage of his apartment building south of Istanbul Saturday after spending 97 hours trapped beneath rubble.
About five hours later, his supine body was discovered by a secluded Civil War cannon near the Potomac River, a bullet wound through his mouth, his right thumb trapped in the trigger of an antique .38-caliber revolver, gun-shot residue on his hand, and blood oozing from the back of his head.
Trapped in Monicagate
The Russians claimed the pause "was intended to allow the thousands of civilians still trapped in Grozny to escape from the fighting" ( NYT ). But, since two of three senior field generals were replaced concurrently, the "reason behind the [suspension] ...