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That region became a death trap last week for two U.S. journalists, Los Angeles Times Correspondent Dial Torgerson, 55, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33 (see PRESS). The two Americans were driving along a road near Cifuentes, a short distance inside Honduras, when their car was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a position on the Nicaraguan side of the border, killing the two men instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part...
...four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33, on assignment for U.S. News & World Report, to their deaths...
FATAL OBSESSION by Stephen Greenleaf Dial; 250 pages...
...help, simply dial 800-COCAINE...
...inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...