Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said one U.S. citizen, Andres Escabi, was known to have been killed in the crash. He said Escabi, a native of Puerto Rico, also held Colombian citizenship and lived in Bogota...
Leal said one piece of the jet was found six miles away. The RCN radio network said a body was found a half-mile from the main crash site. Several looters were caught removing. rings and gold chains from the corpses, policesaid...
...Seattle-based Boeing Co. said it wassending a team of investigators to Colombia tohelp determine the cause of the crash...
Irises, it seemed at the time, was the picture that saved the art market after Black Monday -- Oct. 19, 1987 -- when Wall Street plunged 508 points. Actually, the market was running quite high between the crash and the sale of Irises, but the painting was greeted as a talisman. Bond beefed up the security arrangements on the top floor of his headquarters in Perth to fortress strength and unveiled his acquisition -- the only Van Gogh in Australia -- to the press. "This isn't just a great painting!" he exulted to the cameras. "It's the greatest painting in the world...
...FALLING. NASA warns that three U.S. satellites may soon crash to earth. First to fall, perhaps next month: the Solar Max Scientific Satellite. The agency hopes to rescue the eleven-ton Long Duration Exposure Facility, designed to test the effects of solar radiation on computer chips, by using the shuttle Columbia to retrieve it from orbit in December. A supersophisticated Air Force-CIA Key Hole spy satellite failed after deployment on Aug. 8. The $1 billion snooper is tumbling wildly, but the time of its demise cannot be predicted...