Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant to think of Ritchie as some sort of demi-god, besmitten with a tragic curse. You see, it was simply destined that one day Ritchie would die in a plane crash...
...receives a lucky Mexican talisman to stop his nightmares of plane crashes. But, ominously, the talisman breaks in a fight with Bob just before the real crash. In fact, to add to the melodrama. Valens ends up on the Buddy Holly-chartered plane which eventually crashes over Iowa only because he wins a coin toss--the first he has ever won in his life...
...Delta Air Lines? Hardly a day seems to pass without news of another near disaster involving one of the Atlanta-based carrier's jets. Last week a Delta 767 landed on the wrong runway in Boston and forced a nearby plane to stop suddenly to avoid a crash. Then two Delta jets leaving Los Angeles faced mechanical difficulties. One plane's flight was aborted on the runway because of a malfunctioning warning light; the other took off but had to return to the airport when a pressurization problem surfaced. Those episodes, added to several other Delta mishaps in recent weeks...
...Herrera, 49, a Torrijos cousin whose own professional climb was blocked by Noriega's rapid promotion. Upon his forced retirement last month as second in command of the Defense Forces, Diaz summoned reporters to his home and charged Noriega with several crimes, including helping to arrange the 1981 plane crash in which Torrijos was killed. Last week Diaz deflected several summonses to appear at the Attorney General's office and lodge formal charges against Noriega...
...course, North's network has come apart with a crash so resounding that it threatens to discredit the entire Reagan Doctrine. Despite the severe excesses committed in its name, the strategy of combatting Soviet expansionism is at least a debatable option for U.S. foreign policy. But any policy that is concealed from Congress and much of the Government always runs the risk of conferring enormous power on individuals who may abuse it or confuse it with their own reckless or over-zealous imperatives. That is just what happened in the case of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. He wound up disastrously...