Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brian Mansfield New Fairfield, Conn...
Barbara J. Kantz Greenwich, Conn...
Rebecca Scruton, 28, a Meriden, Conn., mother of two young children, had become a widow in December, when her husband Dale, 30, died of cancer. She was on Flight 007 only because she had a passport problem when she went to board an earlier flight; her children were not with her. There were 269 such stories of personal poignancy...
...Aeroflot's landing rights at New York and Washington in 1981, after the military crackdown in Poland, the Soviet carrier was a notorious offender, frequently entering off-bounds airspace in the U.S. Two Aeroflot planes passed over New England military installations, including the U.S. Navy shipyards at Groton, Conn., where work was under way on a new nuclear submarine. Both carried passengers-and possibly spy cameras or electronic eavesdropping equipment. Lot, the Polish carrier, and the Czechoslovak line, CSA, Government also wandered into restricted zones. Notes one U.S. Government official tartly: "We never blasted any of them...
...varsity crew also made headlines over the summer. After suffering a stunning upset against Yale June 5 in New London, Conn., the varsity heavies knocked off the Elis, Brown, and Washington on June 18 in the Cincinnati Invitational Regatta, which annually determines the national champion. The Pac 10's best led most of he way; the Crimson caught the Huskies with 25 meters left and won the two-kilometer race by two feet...