Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the first major wide-bodied aircraft accident did occur, near Paris in 1974, it was a Turkish Air Lines DC-10 that carried 346 people to their deaths. The 747 seemed destined to suffer mainly in movie fancy-in a mid-air collision in Airport 75, in a crash at sea in Airport...
...Revolutionary factions had been quelled by the army. Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself. When his plot failed, the official but as yet unverified account continues, he died in a plane crash over Mongolia while he was trying to flee to the Soviet Union. Chiang Ch'ing recounted the entire case in great detail during her interview, disclosing several new elements in the Lin-Mao struggle...
...Crash of '79, Erdman(2 last week...
...burglary. Uncontrite, he described Watergate as a "paranoid exploitation [of] a minor illegal act." He added: "I paid my price for Watergate in sorrow and lost, wasted years; in tragedy, ridicule and humiliation." The worst blow was the loss of his wife Dorothy, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Looking wan and thin, Hunt surfaced in Brookline, Mass., to consult with a booking agent about going on a lecture tour to make some money. He still owes a federal tax bill of about...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...