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Tiempo said. Tiempo said that the body of Castillo, 26, was marked with a death seal but that as he was being put into a cold chamber another doctor noticed that his heart continued to beat. Physicians revived him with electri- cal shocks and performed open heart surgery to save him, Tiempo said.“ am alive because of the pure miracle that while I was in the morgue a doctor by the name of Pineda noticed that one of the veins of my throat still carried a pulse,” Castillo was quoted as saying. Castillo, a fruit and vegetable vendor, plans to file charges of homicide against his agressor, a man identified as Roque Sabillon. Castillo's wife said that his mother had already bought the coffin. (Source: MUFONET Network, via ASTRONet) The quakes hit at 9.30 on Saturday and 9.00 on Sunday; the Sunday con- cert began half an hour earlier. The seismograph at the Science Museum, four miles away, didn't pick up any movement; but London sits on a bed of clay, lousy stuff for recording quakes. The buildings most affected--Anwell Court, Green Lanes and Rowley Gardens--were nine-storey tower blocks. Only people above the fifth floors felt anything, which suggested to Alice Walker of the British Geological Survey that the shockwave had a fre- quency of 2 Hz -two vibrations a sec- ond. Sound at this wavelength is below our hearing threshold, but can be felt up the spine. Windows, ceilings and balconies were cracked, and tenants called the fire brigade. One tenant described his building “moving in a circular motion-- it was like walking on an aeroplane". On the Sunday night, thirty tenants, a dozen fire officers, eight police officers and a council surveyor gathered outside the Rowley Gardens flats. In 1984 and 1987, U2 concerts in Brussels formed very precise patterns on a seismometer five kilometres away. (Sources: The Guardian, 1] & 26 August 1992; The Daily Mail, 18 & 26 August 1992.) Brigadier Guedes Muniz said a few words: 'We military technicians and aeronautic engineers have not tried in the past to discuss the technological and scientific probability of these space vagabonds. And we are not trying to discuss it now, because we remember an old story, very good to be recalled here: "Years ago, the best aeronautic engineers in the world assembled together to study the horn-beetle flight. They analysed the horn-beetle, it's aerodynamic shape entirely wrong, it's flight surface tremendously deficient, it's heaviness and it's incredible power. After a great deal of reasoning and sci- entific experimentation they had made certain that the horn-beetle could not fly. But the horn-beetle, knowing noth- ing of this, is still flying!" (Source: Taken from a Brazilian Air Force Official report, as published in Flying Saucer Newsletter CS1.- NZ. 1957) ROCK 'N' ROLL EARTHQUAKE The pop group Madness played two re-union gigs in Finsbury Park, north- east London, on the weekend of 8/9 August 1992 -their first for six years. It was probably "One Step Beyond" that set the crowd of 30,000 into a stomping rhythm that shook the neigh- bouring buildings with a quake estimat- ed at magnitude 2 on the Richter scale. Appropriately, the song contains the words "earthquake eruption". HONDURAN MAN DECLARED DEAD COMES BACK TO LIFE TEGUCIGALPA, 7 Jan. A man taken for dead came back to life as he was being put into a hospital morgue in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, local newspapers reported on Thursday. Jorge Alberto Castillo was declared dead by a doctor late in December from stab wounds to the heart, The Daily Hurricane Andrew stirred up some- thing weird in Elwood Guillot's pond in Independence, Louisiana, off Interstate 55, about fifty miles north of New Orleans. Nobody was really sure if the trans- parent gelatinous blobs are animal, veg- etable or chemical. They were found on 26 August by Elwood's grandson Michael, out inspecting the storm dam- age. The main blob was a bit smaller after three days, but was still more than a foot across. Michael Guillot plunged his net into the pond and came up with several more blobs. Biologist Bob Thomas said the blobs - were "harmless crowds of single cell organisms", which doesn't really leave us any the wiser. (Source: AP, 29 August 1992.) 54¢NEXUS HURRICANE BLOB ———_—__--_ _—_— FEBRUARY-MARCH '93