Word: chuckly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THREE YEARS, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed," says Beulah McKee, 75. Her bitterness has still not subsided. But seated in the parlor of her house in Trafford, Pennsylvania, the house where her son was born 43 years ago, she struggles to speak serenely. "I know that's not what our President wants me to say," she admits...
Today, as the U.S. spearheads the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Libya for not handing over two suspects in the bombing, Mrs. McKee wonders if Chuck's background contains the secret of why this plane was targeted. If her suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major Charles Dennis McKee, called "Tiny" by his Army intelligence friends, was a burly giant and a superstar in just about every kind of commando training offered to American military personnel. He completed the rugged Airborne and Ranger schools, graduated first in his class from the Special Forces qualification course...
...Beulah McKee the mystery deepened six months after Chuck's death, when she received a letter from another U.S. agent in Beirut. It was signed "John Carpenter," a name the Pentagon says it can't further identify. Although the letter claimed that Chuck's presence on the Pan Am plane was unrelated to the bombing, Carpenter's message only stirred her suspicions. "I cannot comment on Chuck's work," he wrote, "because his work lives on. God willing, in time his labors will bear fruit and you will learn the true story of his heroism and courage...
...specific examples where The Crimson has praised BSA, overall, the coverage we have received has been negative in tone. By selectively covering our most controversial events--i.e., the speeches by City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries, Nation of Islam Minister Conrad Muhammad, and Public Enenmy rapper Chuck D--Crimson writers have sought to question the integrity of our organization...
...discredit" it or pit it against other campus groups. We have supported and praised the organization in the past, and we have criticized it only for inviting Jeffries--not because of his views, but because of his violence. The staff never criticized the invitations of Conrad Muhammad or Chuck...