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Word: forte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the first suspects to be questioned by police in Fort Wayne was an unidentified white man who had made abusive comments about Jordan at the Marriott bar the night of the shooting. Police officials quickly concluded, however, that the man had nothing to do with the case. Next, police sought to question Jon Thompson Douglas, 40, a welder from Grabill, a small town about ten miles northeast of Fort Wayne. The morning after Jordan was shot, Allen County deputy sheriffs arrested Douglas for operating a motorcycle while drunk and confiscated three unloaded rifles, including a Remington .30-06, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush in the Night | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

Even with 20 FBI agents and all 30 Fort Wayne police detectives assigned to the case, about the only thing that could be established for certain immediately was that Jordan had received no hint that he might be the target of violence in Fort Wayne. He had gone there to be the guest of honor at a $17.50-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the local Urban League. He arrived Wednesday afternoon, checked into ground-floor Room 180 at the Marriott and held a half-hour press conference at which he described Carter's presidency as "an Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush in the Night | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...local International Harvester Co. plant and has been a member of the Urban League for three years. According to police, the pair drove in her car to her handsome, two-story white frame house on tree-lined Lafayette Esplanade in a racially mixed neighborhood in south central Fort Wayne. For two hours or so, Coleman told police, they drank coffee and chatted. Shortly after 2 a.m., Coleman drove Jordan back to the Marriott, where he was gunned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush in the Night | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...Libertad! ?Libertad! ?Libertad! shouted the crowd of 350 Cuban refugees as they rushed through the streets of Arkansas' Fort Chaffee one evening last week. It was 10:30 p.m. -curfew time -and the friends and relatives visiting the refugees at the base's Red Cross building had just been asked to leave for the night. Suddenly, the anger and frustration that had long been building within the refugee center erupted. The refugees knocked over barriers and streamed out of an open rear gate that had been left unguarded by the military police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We Want Out | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...breakout followed by only two days a more violent melee at the refugee processing center at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., where 200 Cubans jumped the fence. Some of them threw rocks and bricks at military police. The police eventually corralled them and isolated 68 in a more secure compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We Want Out | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

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