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Word: fugnido (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roar of an airplane engine is one of the few things that bring hope to the Fugnido refugee camp, a desolate stretch of Ethiopia where 57,000 survivors of Sudan's civil war subsist. But on Aug. 7, Fugnido's residents listened in vain for the sound of the Twin Otter carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, 44, who had visited five times before. His plane had crashed nose-first into a mountain 30 miles away, killing all 16 aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Leland: Late Honors | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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