Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police found photos and videotapes, some of which showed victims pleading for their lives. One tape features a young woman, bound in handcuffs and leg- irons, whom Lake matter-of-factly orders to do what they say or "we will take you out in the back and shoot you." Another tape shows Ng, who is still missing and may have fled to Canada, slashing away the shirt and brassiere of a woman begging for the life of her baby. Officials are not confident that they will be able to identify all the victims. They also suspect that more bodies will...
...ordinary skyjacking, no incident involving some troubled soul who needed to be jollied or sweet-talked or strong-armed out of a free ride to Havana or Timbuktu. It was an American plane, Trans World Airlines' Flight 847 on its leg from Athens to Rome, with 153 passengers and crew members aboard, at least 100 of whom were Americans. Most important, the hijackers were identified by an accomplice as members of Islamic Jihad (or Holy War), the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim organization that is regarded as a sort of umbrella for various fundamentalist terror groups operating in Lebanon and other...
...even graver concern was the possibility, considered remote by most experts, that the Walkers had compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other's subs, the balance of terror would be drastically changed...
...Navy insisted last week that the sea leg was as sturdy as ever. "Our submarine fleet is invulnerable," declared Vice Admiral Nils Thunman, deputy chief of naval operations for submarine warfare. "The oceans are becoming more opaque, not less." When satellites, surface ships and sophisticated sound systems are used against the Navy's own "boomers" in tests, he said, "nobody can find...
When Terry Fox, who lost a leg to cancer, started a 1980 run across Canada to raise money for research, no one was more profoundly affected than Steve Fonyo, a boy from Vernon, B.C., who had also lost a leg to the disease. Fox raised more than $20 million before the spreading cancer ended his run; he died in 1981. But his spirit lived, as 14 months ago in St. John's, Nfld., Fonyo dipped his toe into the Atlantic and embarked on his own "journey for lives." Last week, after grinding down 4,924 miles, 17 pairs of running...