Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Battered to Death. A Hindu building contractor told of how Pakistani troops at a tea estate asked people whom they voted for in the election. "They shot 200 who admitted voting for the Awami League." In a hospital in Agartala, Indian doctors reported that a number of the refugees came in badly burned. The doctors explained that the refugees were shoved into huts by Pak army men, who then set the huts on fire. The hospital has also treated 370 men, women and children for bullet wounds, 27 of whom died...
...contractor was Long Island's Grumman Aerospace Corp., builder of the Navy's long-awaited F-14 fighter, a swing-wing Mach 3 jet that is designed to waylay any enemy missile-armed bombers sent to attack American ships. In 1969, the Pentagon awarded Grumman a contract to build 722 of the planes, figuring to pay $11.5 million for each of them, or $8.3 billion for the lot. But last April, a Grumman official formally announced to Navy headquarters that it had become "commercially impracticable" for his company to construct more than the 38 planes that...
...light plane equipped with an infra-red camera to detect buried decomposing bodies. By week's end two more corpses had been found near the banks of the Feather River; the total stood at 25. The only suspect in the case, Juan Corona, 37, a taciturn farm-labor contractor, was arraigned in Sutler County Courthouse and charged with ten counts of murder (he will be charged with more when the remaining bodies are identified). He remained calm; in his behalf, his lawyer pleaded not guilty to each of the charges...
...them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...
...winos of Yuba City or neighboring Marysville. Corona collected them in an old blue school bus with his name lettered on the side; the first victim reported missing, Sigrid Beierman, also known as Pete Peterson, was last seen about six weeks ago being driven away by a Mexican labor contractor...