Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...search for Tison continued, more than 300 police officers and hundreds of civilian volunteers probed the desert, in heat up to 120° F., near the small town of Chuichu, Ariz. They found nothing. But last week Ray Thomas, 27, a chemical company worker, smelled a foul odor when he went out to dispose of some trash about 1˝ miles from the point where the fugitives' van had been ambushed. Searching around, he soon found the decomposed and bloated body of Gary Tison lying face up under a mesquite tree. Unwounded, he had apparently died of exposure to the heat...
...were controlling events, but more important, were reflecting a widespread public mood. As the discussions dragged on through the night and into the next day, conditions in the overcrowded, ill-equipped palace became intolerable. Hostages who could not wait to use any of the four toilets in the palace found relief in wastebaskets behind the speaker's lectern in the Chamber of Deputies. During the first night, 300 people escaped by pushing out an air conditioner and climbing out a window. The guerrillas later released all children and most of the women. That still left more hostages than even...
...administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this Protestant inner sanctum, their defiance touched off a tragic tribal war that has engulfed all Northern Ireland. Yet after ten years of bloodshed, the city that served as the fuse for war may have found the balm for peace, as Derry Protestants and Catholics set an example for the rest of Northern Ireland by attempting to share power...
...began in March. Most larger businesses were taken over by the government, and thousands of Chinese have fled the country or are waiting, miserably and without shelter, at the Viet Nam-China border for the chance to get out. An estimated 8,000 refugees?Chinese and non-Chinese?have found their way to Hong Kong alone since the fall of Saigon. Another 10,000 or so have made it to France...