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The Fire Still Burns
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Grieving family members of those who perished in the Feb. 18, Taegu,
Korea, subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the
investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper
safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest
count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited
out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train
conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among
the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the
car"to remove the carriage's master key and...