Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there, and the next it was gone," said one Shannon air trafficker. "We are totally baffled." Less than two hours later, a merchant vessel in the area reported that uninflated life vests and bodies were scattered across the gray sea. All 307 passengers and 22 crew members were feared dead...
...third worst airline disaster in history, exceeded only by the 1977 collision of KLM and Pan American 747s in the Spanish Canary Islands that killed 582, and the 1974 crash of a Turkish DC-10 near Paris that left 345 dead. More alarmingly, however, the sudden and inexplicable plunge of the Air India craft had the earmarks of terrorism. "It is most likely a bomb," said Mike Ramsden, editor in chief of the aviation magazine Flight International. "A bomb is the most likely reason for a catastrophe, so sudden and complete, to an aircraft with a very fine safety record...
Kids sometimes hold their noses and try to count to 100. But this was the big time. "We were holding our breath until we sold the first million," confesses David Lee Roth, who released his first solo album, Crazy from the Heat, in the dead of last winter. Record buyers warmed to California Girls, one of the album's singles; another, Just a Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody, is still on the charts. Roth's rock roll has music gossips asking whether the flamboyant singer will ever return to Van Halen, the group where he started. His response...
...outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home of Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, self-proclaimed friends of the dead man, policemen came upon a tape that featured martial music and a speech by Adolf Hitler at a rally. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together, and they suggested that the body found at Embu did indeed belong to the "Angel of Death" and the world's most hunted war criminal...
...scuffling emerged, one photographer pointed his camera through the window at a horrific scene: one of the men was holding Nagano in an armlock while the other brandished a bloody bayonet. Moments later the men emerged from the room covered with blood, and announced: "We stabbed him." Nagano lay dead from 13 wounds. Then the two killers, whose motive is still being investigated, calmly awaited the arrival of the police...