Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge in the Castro case is expected to rule in June on the admissibility of the DNA test as evidence. His decision could have reverberations across the U.S., since evidence from DNA analysis has led to dozens of convictions and helped put at least two men on death row. Now many of these cases may have to be re-examined. Says Randolph Jonakait, a professor at New York Law School: "((The Castro case)) is a bombshell in DNA litigation...
...ambition of Defense Minister Lin Biao, then his designated successor. The impatient Lin laid plans to oust Mao via the euphemistically named "571 Engineering Project," but his coup plot was discovered, and Lin died when the plane in which he escaped from Beijing crashed in Mongolia. After Lin's death, that most deft of diplomats, Zhou Enlai, reduced the army's role in political affairs...
...Deng. Mao was massive; Deng is diminutive. Mao was an ideologue; Deng is a pragmatist. But they have had one shared frustration: arranging an orderly succession. First Liu Shaoqi and then Lin Biao disappointed Mao; Hua Guofeng, his last designated successor, held power after the Chairman's death, from 1976 to 1978. In 1980 Deng put his approved team in place -- Hu Yaobang as party General Secretary and Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Seven years later, Hu was forced from power as a deviationist. Now Deng is purging Zhao and other liberals who were the true believers in his reform program...
...City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux chief, and talks himself into a long, marveling chapter on the splendid old warrior's death. It might be expected that a writer accustomed to being funny in magazines would perform too gaudily in a book of this kind, luxuriate too much in the acuteness of his ironies. Frazier's enthusiasms are personal, but he stays out of the snapshots most of the time...
...explosion. The idea that the blast was no accident arose largely from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last week denied he had bought such a policy, Hartwig certainly did, and had not scratched Truitt as beneficiary when he died...