Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summers, 30, who spent more than three days buried alive in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Joplin, Mo., last week was thankful that a trained German shepherd sniffed him out. Workers began digging where the dog indicated, and soon Summers' muffled voice was heard calling for help. He will eat Thanksgiving dinner in a hospital -but in satisfactory condition...
...business. The indictment gave this account of the killings: Thevis shot Kenneth Hanna in November 1970 and then stuffed him in the trunk of his own Cadillac. But Thevis bungled the job by locking up the car keys with the corpse. He asked a business associate, Roger Underbill, to help him recover the keys. Then Thevis drove the car to the Atlanta airport, where the body was later discovered by police. The second slaying took place in September 1973, when James E. Mayes was blown up in his van outside his adult bookstore in downtown Atlanta...
...flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...
...commander in chief, the Shah has created an impressive military force that one Pentagon expert sums up as "effective, still on a learning curve with some new weapons and, above all, loyal." Apart from a few army units that crossed the Persian Gulf in 1974 to help the Sultanate of Oman put down a rebellion by the Dhofor rebels, or served with United Nations peacekeeping forces, Iran's military has not been tested in combat, but it is awesomely equipped. In the past two decades, Iran has bought $36 billion in weaponry, most of it from Britain...
...part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...