A security guard at Walter Reed Army Medical Center opened fire at another guard Wednesday outside a busy entrance to the hospital, police said. No one was injured.The guards had been arguing at about 8:30 a.m. when one of them fired as many as 10 shots, Lt. Jimmie Riley said.
The other guard, who was not hit, ran to a nearby house to call police, Riley said. The guard who fired the shots was taken into custody.
BERLIN – The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin’s new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.
The Ostel offers a renewed whiff of life in the former German Democratic Republic, welcoming travelers with portraits of communist leaders adorning the walls.
Furnishings — except for mattresses, bed linens, sink and toilets — are the real thing, dug up by founders Daniel Helbig and Guido Sand from flea markets, friends, family and eBay.
But Helbig made clear it was not about pining for a return to the police-state.
“We had the idea of preserving a bit of GDR culture … (but) we are not crying for the East German regime,” said Helbig, who grew up in East Berlin and experienced its restrictions on freedom of expression and movement first hand.
Germany was divided into two after World War II, the capitalist West and communist East, and nowhere was the split more acutely felt than Berlin, where communist authorities built a wall through the city to prevent its citizens from leaving. The wall fell in 1989, and Germany was officially reunified in 1990.
TOKYO – Japan has changed the name of the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, site of the famous World War II battle, to its original name of Iwo To after residents there were prodded into action by two recent Clint Eastwood movies.
The new name in Japanese looks and means the same as Iwo Jima — or Sulfur Island — but sounds different, the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute said.
The institute announced the name change Monday after discussing the issue with Japan’s coast guard. An official map with the new name will be released Sept. 1.
AÂ man who lost his wallet 43 years ago has gotten it back, with his old charge cards, dusty photographs and birth certificate still inside. Construction workers renovating a movie theater discovered Epigmenio Sanchez’s billfold on Friday jammed between the metal casings of a radiator. He lost it in 1964.
“I remember losing it,” said Epigmenio Sanchez, 70, of Brawley. “I just don’t remember where.”
Between the folds of crumbling brown leather were fragments of his past: a few family pictures, old pay stubs and a couple of department store charge cards. His birth certificate, which Sanchez carried when he went to Mexico to prove he was a U.S. citizen, was also there.
The only thing not in the wallet was money – but Sanchez said he can’t remember whether he had any cash on him when the wallet went missing at the Crest Theater.
The theater has been vacant for years and is being converted into a concert venue. Workers found the wallet after sawing apart a radiator to lift it out.