<s docid="LA071090-0093" num="17"> There is no quid pro quo for these acts, and like the rescuers who drowned in the Sierras this winter trying to save the young campers who fell through the ice, there were no familial ties between the victims and their would-be saviors.</s>

<s docid="LA071090-0093" num="21"> Hunt notes that good deeds, like the rescue of three car passengers from the frigid Potomac in 1982 by Arland Williams Jr., who died during the ordeal, are less understandable to most of us than those selfish, aggressive or brutal acts that benefit the actor.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-3924" num="16"> In the late 1960's, 30 minutes after the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, nine crewmen attached to a certain air force unit stationed in Jiangxi flew through the mushroom cloud, at the risk of their lives, and completed a sample-gathering mission for scientific research, thereby making an outstanding contribution to accelerating the development of our country's nuclear weapons.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="27"> Three days earlier, Oliver (Billy) Sipple, a disabled Vietnam Marine veteran, happened to be at Union Square when Sara Jane Moore aimed a.38 caliber revolver at then-President Gerald Ford.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="28"> Sipple lunged and knocked away the gun.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="29"> The bullet went wild.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="30"> The President was whisked away, safely .</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="97"> But although he lived on a veteran's pension, he never stopped being generous, his friends said.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="98"> He would give at least $50 to any worthy charity, or help a Tenderloin derelict.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="99"> "I have watched him split his last two dollars.</s>

<s docid="LA021389-0077" num="100"> Give one dollar to someone who needed a meal, and use the rest to buy himself a drink," Ross said.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-1953" num="17"> When the bus was traveling through the territory of Junlian County, Sichuan Province, four criminals extorted money from a female passenger and resorted to wanton insults.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-1953" num="18"> Xu Honggang stepped forward bravely to her rescue.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-1953" num="19"> He received 14 stab wounds in his chest, stomach, and arms in the courageous struggle against the criminals and over 50 centimeters of his intestines dangled out of a slit in his stomach.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-1953" num="20"> Holding the dangling intestines with his sleeveless sweater, he jumped from the bus out of the window to chase the criminals despite acute pain.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="10"> When petite Gail Mazzetti Hooks saw two thugs beating a Houston police officer and going for his gun, she attacked with uncharacteristic fury -- scratching, kicking and punching -- until the two men fled.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="60"> You'll just freeze," said Jameson, 36, of Roebling, N.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="61"> J., who last April saved a woman from a knife-wielding attacker.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="62"> "It has nothing to do with bravery," said Andrew Mathieson, 60, of Pittsburgh, who was shot three times while defending his secretary, Jane Celender, on Feb. 19, 1986.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="65"> Mary Ann Anderson, whose father, John, died trying to save a boy from drowning in Lake Michigan on July 17, 1987, said she has met several Carnegie heroes and all share one trait.</s>

<s docid="LA042389-0096" num="78"> For 58 years she and her disabled daughter have been supported by a Carnegie pension awarded when her husband, Clarence, died trying to rescue a man who was overcome by fumes when he fell into a gasoline storage tank.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-53541" num="43"> There are many deeds of numerous heroes, whether they are famous or not, devoting their youth for the party and the leader -- such as in the case of Hero Han Yong-cho who covered an exploding hand-grenade with his body to save the portraits of the great leader and dear leader Comrades in an accidental touch-and-go moment -- are examples that prove their vows.</s>

<s docid="LA052189-0093" num="47"> Shaffer had stepped outside in the rain to see if nearby wooden bridges were still standing when, Mrs. Frum recalls, everyone heard engineer John Hess' heroic warning whistle from the cab of Pennsylvania Railroad Engine 1124.</s>

<s docid="LA052189-0093" num="49"> McCullough wrote: "Hess in his engine blazed down the valley, the water practically on top of him, in an incredibly heroic dash to sound the alarm.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-27579" num="16"> A squad leader in a communications company in the Jinan Military Region, Xu Honggang bravely stepped forward and fought heroically against four odious thugs armed with knives at a critical time when people's lives and property were in serious danger.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-27579" num="17"> Even while suffering from 14 knife wounds, he still jumped off a long-distance bus and chased the thugs until he fainted.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-27579" num="19"> What is equally praiseworthy, while Xu Honggang was suffering from serious wounds for the sake of the masses, some comrades in Junlian County Taxation Bureau, including Zhan Benfang, together with cadres and masses from Junlian, Yibin, and Shengchi, spared no effort to save him.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-2254" num="21"> What is particularly commendable is that during his 12 years of active service, he continuously did good things.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-2254" num="22"> He solved problems for others, mediated in disputes, and could still contribute his share magnanimously without any hesitation even when he was misunderstood by others, thus enabling him to stand up to any test.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-26590" num="16"> The 20 included Xu Honggang, a heroic fighter who gallantly rose to defend a just cause.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-26590" num="20"> Jiang Zemin praised highly the heroic deeds of Xu Honggang, who defied brute force and took up the cudgels on behalf of a just cause, as well as the noble conduct of people such as Zhan Benfang, who helped rescue and protect soldiers.</s>

<s docid="LA022190-0007" num="16"> As he struggled to reach others drowning in the frigid waters, Anderson crashed through the ice, slipping into the dark of the mountain lake.</s>

<s docid="LA022190-0007" num="35"> He typically beat everyone else to a disaster scene -- including a fiery plane crash that killed three people last month -- and often took a lead role in risky rescue operations.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-59457" num="50"> ``I will give you the example of Hadzi Sfet, who is one of the first heroes to die in the fighting when we tried to take over Vogosca.</s>

<s docid="LA072590-0017" num="12"> He had been shot four times with a small-caliber handgun last Wednesday after he responded to a woman's screams for help after she confronted a burglar in her home.</s>

<s docid="LA072590-0017" num="36"> Smith, who worked for a carpet installation firm, chased a gun-wielding man about a block down the residential street before he was shot in the face, stomach, left arm and right thigh, police said.</s>

<s docid="LA092189-0146" num="13"> Pinon, a 60-year-old retired auto worker, was checking a transmission leak under another daughter's fire-engine-red 1965 Mustang when a shadowy figure dressed in black leaped over his back-yard fence and into the already running car.</s>

<s docid="LA092189-0146" num="18"> A struggle over the keys ensued.</s>

<s docid="LA092189-0146" num="19"> The men grappled on the grass.</s>

<s docid="LA092189-0146" num="20"> The stranger broke away and dashed across the street.</s>

<s docid="LA100990-0034" num="13"> The adjacent home was spared through the heroic efforts of a neighbor, an off-duty city fireman, who stayed on that roof watering it down until the Fire Department had hose lines going.</s>

<s docid="LA022390-0069" num="24"> Four youths plunged through the ice as Porter and veteran counselor Dave Meyers went to their aid and also fell through the ice.</s>

<s docid="FT924-12931" num="9"> Four times wounded and three times decorated, he survived an extraordinary incident during Alamein which the regimental historian has called 'the most famous of our war'.</s>

<s docid="FT924-12931" num="27"> Finding modest resistance behind the wire, he pressed on through the defences, capturing 2,000 prisoners and 49 guns.</s>

<s docid="FT924-12931" num="31"> Crossing 2,700 yards of moonlit desert under fire, he captured a dozen prisoners and an anti-tank gun with the loss of only one man.</s>

<s docid="FT924-12931" num="57"> Two days later, driving through a village under heavy fire, he got out of his vehicle to help a wounded bren gunner.</s>

<s docid="LA101790-0105" num="47"> From where she sat, Dorothy could see light, and hear the heroic people who ran to help.</s>

<s docid="LA101790-0105" num="55"> A man, a hero named Tom, arrived.</s>

<s docid="LA101790-0105" num="56"> A man named Clyde came, too, crawling to her through a narrow passageway between the decks.</s>

<s docid="LA101790-0105" num="57"> They used a crowbar to try to pry her free from the car.</s>

<s docid="LA041889-0042" num="8"> It would be nice to report that Mary Bea Porter, since saving a boy's life 13 months ago, has become a terror on the LPGA tour, that her tee shots are carried by angels and her putts fall like rain.</s>

<s docid="LA041889-0042" num="25"> Using mouth-to-mouth, and pounding the boy on the chest, Porter finally brings Jonathan back to life, then battles to keep him alive, although she has no first aid or CPR training.</s>

<s docid="LA072790-0069" num="9"> Gary Smith, the North Park carpet layer whose six-day fight for life drew the admiration of San Diegans after he tried to stop a burglary July 19 in University City, will be eulogized tonight.</s>

<s docid="LA072790-0069" num="12"> Smith, 35, died Tuesday of four gunshot wounds he received at close range when he confronted the burglar.</s>

<s docid="LA072790-0069" num="38"> Smith had been installing carpet in the 7900 block of Camino Tranquilo when he heard screams from the building next door and chased a gun-wielding man before being shot in the face, stomach, left arm and right thigh, police said.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60871" num="19"> He said that the pilots managed to fool the terrorists and land the helicopter at another place which helped their prompt detention.</s>

<s docid="LA060189-0147" num="8"> Allan DeLapp, 60, a retired Los Angeles police officer, died a hero early Wednesday morning when a hit-run driver hurled him into the pavement as he was leading a film crew through Koreatown.</s>

<s docid="LA060189-0147" num="10"> The camera crew said DeLapp spied the driver in time to save the film crew from harm by using his motorcycle as a roadblock, according to the production company's attorney, Lori Todd.</s>

<s docid="LA121089-0170" num="20"> He was so horrified that he requisitioned hundreds of Jews for work details, then got them to safety by reassigning them to a fictional branch office in the Ukraine.</s>

<s docid="LA121089-0170" num="21"> * Aristedes de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul who falsified hundreds of passports to get Jews into Portugal and then was stripped of his position and ridiculed for his actions.</s>

<s docid="LA121089-0170" num="22"> * Alexander and Mila Roslan, a Polish Christian couple, who harbored a Jewish child for three years.</s>

<s docid="LA121089-0170" num="25"> * John Henry Weidner, a Seventh-day Adventist of Dutch descent who developed an escape line to the free countries of Switzerland and Spain during World War II.</s>

<s docid="LA121089-0170" num="64"> For 4 1/2 years during World War II, the Voses endured Nazi raids and risked their lives to hide Jews and others.</s>

