An Austrian miner, rescued after being trapped in a collapsed mine for 10 days without food or water, said yesterday he had lived on prayers, cigarettes and visions of his girlfriend bringing him glasses of water.
Georg Hainzl (24), rescued on Sunday from the mud-filled mine in Lassing, 220 km south-west of Vienna, said in an interview that prayer and belief in God helped him through his ordeal. "I began to pray," he said.
He had not been told that the search continued for 10 other miners caught in a cave-in on July 17th after they entered the pit in an attempt to rescue Hainzl, who had been trapped by an earlier collapse the same day.
The Rev Jesse Jackson is to remain in hospital for another day for treatment of bronchial asthma, doctors said yesterday.
"We did anticipate releasing him, but he's still feeling rather weak, so he'll stay in at least one more day," said Dr Elsie Walker, of the Doctors Hospital of Hyde Park, Chicago. The former US presidential candidate came to the hospital on Saturday night coughing, wheezing and experiencing shortness of breath.
Binnie Barnes, a glamorous British-born character actress whose big break came in the 1933 Charles Laughton film The Private Life of Henry VIII, has died in California, aged 95. Barnes died on Monday at her Beverly Hills home, her son Mike Frankovich Jr said.
She typically played a vitriolic, wise-cracker, appearing in more than 75 movies that included Diamond Jim, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Three Musketeers, Barbary Coast Gent and Decameron Nights.
Before her screen debut in 1929, she worked as a nurse, chorus girl, dance hostess and vaudeville comedian.