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• The Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges are bracing for a turbulent separation , following Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin 's long-awaited announcement that [_ARG0 the exchanges] [_ARGM-MOD will] [_rel sever] [_ARG1 ties] .
• [_ARG0 The explosion] sent shards of metal flying , *-1 [_rel severing] [_ARG1 the DC-10 's hydraulic or control systems] , and led to the crash that *T*-11 killed 112 people .
• [_ARG0 The massive temblor , which *T*-1 killed at least 61 people ,] [_rel severed] [_ARG1 the Bay Bridge , a major artery to the east] , and closed most ramps leading to and from Highway 101 , the biggest artery to the south .
• Many foreign trading offices in Hong Kong were swamped *-1 with telexes and telephone calls from Chinese trade officials urging [_ARG0 them] [_ARGM-NEG not] *-2 to [_rel sever] [_ARG1 ties] .
• Efforts * to fight the blaze were hampered *-1 because [_ARG1 water mains] were [_rel severed] *-2 [_ARGM-DIS as well] .
• British and Argentine diplomats opened talks *ICH*-1 in Madrid aimed * at * restoring [_ARG1 ties] [_rel severed] * [_ARGM-PNC because of their 1982 war over the Falkland Islands] .
• They stopped short of * resuming [_ARG1 diplomatic ties] , [_rel severed] * [_ARGM-TMP in 1979] .