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...letter in Belfast, bombs are exploding in different parts of the city, and ordinary people are suffering. I have not had an easy day, visiting homes that are heartbroken with grief, and this afternoon seeing one of my church 17-year-olds, a leg amputee, the victim of I.R.A. gunshot wounds. It is against this background that I listened with shock at the statement of Senator Kennedy...
Individual troopers corroborated the officials' stories. Then, 24 hours later, the Monroe County medical examiner, Dr. John F. Edland, provided some shocking news. He had examined eight of the dead hostages and found that "all eight cases died of gunshot wounds. There was no evidence of slashed throats." A ninth hostage's body was examined at a nearby hospital; he, too, had died of bullet wounds. Two independent pathologists confirmed that all nine hostages had indeed been shot to death. None of the bodies had been mutilated, although some bore cuts and marks from beatings. All had died on Monday...
...with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...
Died. Robert E. Peach, 51, former head of Mohawk Airlines; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Clinton, N.Y. A World War II Navy bomber pilot who won two Distinguished Flying Crosses. Peach joined tiny Robinson Airlines (three planes) in 1945. After Robinson changed its name to Mohawk, he was elected president, and later board chairman. The driving force behind Mohawk's rapid rise to become the nation's 4th largest regional carrier. Peach was also the first president of a U.S. scheduled airline to hire a black stewardess...
...Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate drug deaths, they were so rare. But from October to December last year, 29 soldiers died as a direct result of overdoses...