Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crash kills the heir apparent to the House of Nehru...
...Delhi afternoon, the elder son of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi performed the ancient Vedic rites for the dead. Rajiv Gandhi, 35, put the torch to the funeral pyre that held the battered body of his younger brother Sanjay, who had died in an air crash the day before. The ceremony, attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, brought a sudden and tragic end to the Gandhi family's dynastic hopes that Sanjay, 33, would eventually succeed his mother as Prime Minister of India...
Major plane accidents sometimes seem to be the only way to force reforms in air safety. The crash 14 months ago in Chicago of an American Airlines DC-10, a disaster that killed 273 people when the plane's engine fell off, may be one such case. After six months of study, a blue-ribbon panel of 13 aviation experts headed by George M. Low, NASA's longtime No. 2 man and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, last week released a firmly critical 118-page report that could lead to a major overhaul of the Federal Aviation...
DIED. Sanjay Gandhi, 33, son of and closest adviser to India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; in a crash of his acrobatic plane; in New Delhi (see WORLD...
...reported TIME'S Peter Hawthorne, a crowd of demonstrators came together in front of the Monaco Cinema to commemorate the 1976 uprising. Suddenly they were confronted by a large squad of white and colored riot police armed with rifles, shotguns and batons. The air was filled with the crash of breaking glass, the smell of burning tires and tear gas, and finally the sound of shots...