Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half days later, the incident had been resolved. After an intense, nine-hour negotiating session with American officials at Panmunjom, North Korea agreed to release Chief Warrant Officer Glenn Schwanke, 28, the sole survivor of the crash, and return the bodies of the three crewmen. Though the incident was caused by the "misconduct of your side," North Korea's Major General Han Chu-Kyong told U.S. Rear Admiral Warren C. Hamm Jr., "we are going to settle leniently...
...landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald Wells, 22, were killed either in the crash or by North Korean gunfire after the chopper hit the ground. Schwanke survived and was taken into custody...
...Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2-The Crash of '79, Erdman (2) 3-Condominium, MacDonald (5) 4-Falconer, Cheever (4) 5-Trinity, Uris (6) 6-Oliver's Story, Segal (3) 7-The Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum (7) 8-Illusions, Bach (8) 9-The Rich Are Different, Howatch 10-Full Disclosure, Safire
...system (see diagram), which has now been completed along roughly one-sixth of the frontier, the first fence has been eliminated, while a deep, concrete-lined ditch has been added. It is intended to thwart would-be escapees trying to crash the border in cars or trucks. West of the ditch is a minefield, then a new close-meshed wire fence that begins 3 ft. underground (to prevent tunneling) and rises 10 ft. above the earth...
Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance...