Word: christensens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white salamander, a familiar icon of superstitious folk magic and divining. The letter was purportedly written...
...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...Bulldogs seemed certain to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament again this year before their recent dip. UMD likely will still receive a bid, but the loss of Christensen, with his 219 career points (in 168 games), is a severe blow to the team's chances...
Doctors have diagnosed Christensen's problem, which they describe as completely unrelated to his involvement in sports, as caused by blood clotting due to an abnormal artery running to the left hemisphere of his brain...
Once released from the hospital, Christensen will take anti-coagulent medication to fight further blood clotting and undergo physical therapy to rehabilitate the impared right side of his body...