Word: clue
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shattered tail fin provides a clue to why Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into a mountainside, taking 520 lives. President Botha's "manifesto" for South Africa disappoints opponents of apartheid. Iran's rigid theocracy harbors fanaticism and little hope for change. How a U.S. hostage managed to film his Shi'ite captors in southern Lebanon...
What caused the disaster? The first and perhaps most significant clue was found the morning after the crash by the crew of a Japanese destroyer cruising in Sagami Bay. The sailors discovered floating on the waves a 15-ft. section of the 747's 35-ft.-high vertical tail fin. Further searching in the water turned up more than 30 other plane parts, most notably a 10-ft-long portion of the rudder assembly and a 104-lb. fiber-glass duct containing tubing and valves that had been attached to an auxiliary power unit in the tail section (see diagram...
...point in the play, a Yank says to a British official that 9/11 forever changed America. Yes, he replies, it made it more stupid. Maybe so. But something more than stupidity made the Iraq tragedy. About what that might be, David Hare, trafficker in caricature, hasn't a clue. --By Richard Schickel
...Warren had collaborated with local store owners, and directed Ms. Brophy to a playground, a sweet shop, a flower store, and a liquor store in Chinatown. The final clue led Ms. Brophy to Confucius Plaza, across the street from his apartment...
...clue told me to get someone to help me read the sign. When I got there, there was a 30-foot banner hanging from the building he lives in, with writing in Chinese. I asked about 15 people before I found someone who could read...