Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents searching a New Jersey dump uncover the body of Rep. Hale Boggs. "All right, who's the wise guy?" says an FBI spokesman. "Now I suppose we'll find Hoffa in Alaska...
...London's Bayswater, they found a passport and a photograph, along with a list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There was also another list of potential murder or kidnap victims, including French politicians, journalists, businessmen and intellectuals, as well as a list of terrorist attacks that Carlos had already carried...
...Preus, 55, of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has decided against ousting one of the district presidents (rough equivalent of a bishop) who insist on recognizing the ordinations of graduates of the rebel liberal school known as "Seminex." Last July the church's convention authorized Preus to dump dissident district presidents 60 days before they were up for reelection. Herman Neunaber of the Southern Illinois District was the first to reach such a deadline. But last week Preus chose "counseling and brotherly admonition" for Neunaber instead. The peace-on-earth approach may not outlast the season, however. Odds...
Federal officials have been told that Hoffa's murderers stuffed his body into a 55-gallon oil drum, carted it across the country and buried it in a dump in Jersey City. This week FBI bulldozers will begin to turn over the trash and garbage in an effort to find the grave of Jimmy Hoffa...
...Once a Dump. The decision was a major disappointment for Harvard, which had planned to combine the library, museum and archives with the existing John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government and its Institute of Politics on a site a few blocks from Harvard Square. John Kennedy had visited the site a month before he was assassinated and pronounced it "ideal." But many Cambridge residents were vehemently opposed to the memorial, fearing that it would attract hordes of tourists into the already bursting Harvard Square area. Indeed, in announcing the decision, Ted Kennedy referred to a "small and vociferous group that...