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DROWNED: At least 82 people, many of them women and children, were drowned and more than 100 were still missing after a ship ran aground in high winds and sank off Angola, the ANGOP state news agency reported Monday in Luanda. The agency said about 45 people survived Thursday's sinking of the 120-ton Angolan ship Ndembi Nemiage off the coastal town of Sumbe, 160 miles south of the capital Luanda. The victims and survivors were all believed to be Angolans.RAIDED: About 500 heavily armed Marxist guerrillas raided a small town in Colombia overnight, killing 14 people and destroying many buildings, a Roman Catholic priest reported Monday. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia members, firing machine-guns and hurling grenades, attacked Ituango Sunday night, killing eight police officers and six civilians, Father Jairo Barrera Correa said in a radio interview. Barrera said the guerrillas destroyed many buildings and took the mayor and six other people hostage before leaving in stolen buses Monday.
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INSPECTED: Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont., on Sunday became the first U.S. military base inspected by Russian experts under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Malmstrom is among 36 active missile, submarine and bomber sites to be inspected over a four-month period to verify that the United States is being truthful about the number and types of missiles it maintains. The team of 10 Russians arrived Sunday on less than 24 hours' notice. They were accompanied by a 10-member team from the U.S. On Site Inspection Agency.
CHALLENGED: The diary of a high-ranking military officer is being challenged as a hoax more than a century after it claimed Davy Crockett surrendered and was executed after the Alamo fell to Mexican forces. Most historical accounts say the San Antonio, Texas, shrine was captured March 6, 1836, and all of its 187 defenders - including Crockett - were killed in battle. However, the diary of Mexican Lt. Col. Jose Enrique de la Pena portrayed Crockett as a coward and damaged his reputation as a bold and fearless frontiersman, researcher William Groneman of New York said.