Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerless craft began to lose altitude, First Officer Marcel Quintal, a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran, remembered an abandoned military strip at Gimli, 60 miles to the southwest. In the hushed cabin, the flight attendants told the 61 passengers to prepare for a crash landing...
...merely China's Defense Minister, he was Mao's officially designated political heir. But in mid-September 1971, Lin suddenly disappeared. Peking first ignored the matter publicly, later claiming that Lin, his wife Ye Qun and his son Lin Liguo had died in an airplane crash in the Mongolian People's Republic. They had, the Chinese asserted, been fleeing to the Soviet Union when their British-built Trident ran out of fuel...
...account. Enter Yao Ming-Le, the mysterious author of this book's version of events. Drawing on an impressive familiarity with the intimate workings of China's armed forces and security services, Yao offers a tale of conspiracy and bungled planning: Lin never died in the plane crash in Mongolia. He and his wife were murdered on Mao's orders. The executions took place, in Yao's version, after a dinner of sea cucumbers and tiger's tendons at a secret military hideout reserved for China's top leaders outside Peking. Mao knew about...
...experimenting." He may be more at peace now, but no one is suggesting that complete equanimity comes from perfect equilibrium. Thoroughly tanked one night in Berlin last year, Bowie extinguished a lit cigarette in a fan's ear and woke up the next afternoon in a hippie crash...
...crime with a long history and it appears a promising future. Like most problems that won't go away it lacks glamour. It is dismissed as a women problem and it is ignored until a particularly brutal incident like this New Bedford rape brings it with a crash into our headlines and consciousness...