Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead, but we're not alive...
...plane was limping back to base in Thailand when it exploded and plunged into the jungle about 25 miles northeast of Pakse, Laos. Two crewmen parachuted to safety, and a rescue helicopter recovered the partial remains of a third airman. That left 13 Americans on the plane presumed dead but designated as missing in action, a classification that encompasses 2,483 other Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia...
...remains may be turned over to the U.S. within a month. Since 1975, Viet Nam has released the remains of 93 Americans to the U.S., including the bones of six U.S. war casualties that were returned last July. The U.S., which has accused Viet Nam of hoarding American dead for diplomatic leverage, possesses one five-year-old intelligence report that says about 400 bodies of American servicemen were stored in a Hanoi warehouse. The source of the report is a Vietnamese defector who worked as an undertaker on U.S. war dead in Hanoi. The Vietnamese have denounced these allegations...
After his first movie, 1966's Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Harrison Ford was called in by a Columbia executive. "Sit down, kid, I want to tell you a story," the executive said to Ford, who had played a bit part as a bellboy. "The first time Tony Curtis was in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star. But you ain't got it, kid, you ain't got it. I want you to go back to class and study." At which point Ford...
...often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...