Word: deaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High above the Pacific Ocean in a tiny churchyard on the island of Maui, Charles A. Lindbergh's grave is as remote and austere as the legendary aviator said he wanted it to be before he died in 1974. But the seclusion Lindbergh sought in life -- and in death -- is slipping away...
...naval investigators rushed to the Rogers' home in San Diego to check for other explosives. Guards were assigned to Captain and Mrs. Rogers, who went into hiding. They had received anonymous death threats shortly after the airliner tragedy. In July, Mrs. Rogers got a threatening call from someone she thought sounded Middle Eastern. "Are you the wife of the murderer?" the caller asked. When the Vincennes returned to its San Diego port in October, the ship's crew was ordered to be on alert for possible attacks when off the ship...
...Iran Airbus tragedy, it was probably not the first such act of revenge. Various Iranian groups claimed, and investigators now widely assume, that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was also a retaliatory strike. That resulted in the death of 270 people, mostly Americans. The prevailing theory among investigators is that the plan to destroy Flight 103 originated among Iranian Revolutionary Guards and was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command...
...hostages are repeatedly threatened with death. Their meals consist of Arabic bread, foul-tasting cheese and tea. Buckley's treatment reveals the full cruelty of the kidnapers. He catches a bad cold that develops into pneumonia, but the guards show him no mercy. "Mr. Buckley is dying," Father Jenco pleads one day. "He is sick. He has dry heaves. Give us liquids...
...that he is sitting on a toilet seat, and food fantasies fill his head. "I'd like some poached eggs on toast, please," he mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last will and testament...