Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personal Defense. The original finding that drowning was the cause is vulnerable because of the examination's cursory nature. Dr. Donald R. Mills, the associate county medical examiner who signed Mary Jo's death certificate, admitted he inspected the body for only ten minutes. Fernandes argued that, regardless of whether an autopsy could prove drowning, Mills' examination did not determine if Mary Jo could have died of some other cause...
...Mills claimed that Dinis was to blame for not ordering an immediate autopsy after the accident, Dinis took the stand to testify that he had indeed wanted an autopsy. But, said he, by the time he had decided to order one the day after Mary Jo's death, he was informed that the body had been flown back to Pennsylvania. Actually, the body was still waiting in a plane at the Martha's Vineyard airport...
...prosecuting or investigating them come out with any advantage? A vendetta against the Kennedys? Ridiculous!" His fulminations aside, Dinis was following respectable legal procedure in seeking the autopsy -though he could have saved both Kennedy and the Kopechnes much grief by ordering the examination on the day of the death, while the body was still in his jurisdiction...
...unspecified charges. The compromise will not please those who argue that, as President Nixon told the U.N. last month, "sky piracy cannot be ended as long as the pirates receive asylum." While most nations have stiff antihijacking statutes for their own citizens (U.S. law provides a maximum penalty of death), there is no international law on the subject. Nor is there yet much sentiment outside the U.S. for modifying the right of political asylum to dissuade hijackers...
...with their families, and marched them off. The soldiers said that the men would be indoctrinated and then allowed to return, but their families never heard of them again. At the foot of the Nam Hoa mountains, ten miles from the cathedral, the captives were shot or bludgeoned to death...