Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...
...Fatal Foray. The incident threatened Mills' re-election chances in the first contest to offer a Republican challenge to his seat since he initially won it 36 years ago. Nonetheless, Mills gained re-election in November by a comfortable majority. Though his powers as chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been...
...Surrender. On the fatal Saturday, Aman remained inside his concrete bungalow, protected by a loyal detachment of Third Division troops. "I will never give myself up," he had told a relative a few days earlier. "I will die like a soldier." Some time after nightfall, Fourth Division troops under Mengistu's command attacked Aman's house with tanks, armored cars, bazookas and machine guns, and in the ensuing two-hour firefight the general was killed. Foreign observers in Addis Ababa speculated that certain members of the council may then have panicked and ordered the mass executions to take...
...Masai herdsmen looked on in horror, the inevitable finally occurred last week: the first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Seconds after takeoff from Nairobi, Lufthansa Flight LH 540 en route to Johannesburg shuddered violently, then sank tail first from an altitude of less than 200 ft. Lufthansa reported that for reasons still not clear, the leading-edge wing flaps were not in the extended position after takeoff. Thus, the aircraft did not have enough wing lift to climb...
...dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body of the family's 29-year-old nanny stuffed into a canvas bag in the dining room; her head and body bore the marks of a fatal beating...