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SEVENTY-EIGHT PEOPLE died in a huge blaze in the biggest department store in Tangshan, a city in northern China's Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. . . . A NEW YORK MAN shot and seriously injured his wife, then killed his mother and another man before turning the gun on himself, police said. . . . ABOUT 15 Russian ice fishermen drowned after a hydro-electric plant discharged hot water into a river, breaking up the ice, the ITAR-Tass news agency said Monday. . . . NINE Vanderbilt University students were burned, one of them seriously, in an attempt to remove graffiti from two statues outside a fraternity house.