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Photographers Catherine Leroy and Henri Bureau happened to be in Mogadishu on assignment for TIME when the hijacked plane arrived there from Southern Yemen early Monday morning. That day, they photographed the grim scene at the airport as the body of the slain pilot was removed from the plane. They then decided to wait around at the field, on a hunch that Flight 181's four-day odyssey was about to reach a climax. Reports Leroy: "We knew something was coming up at 1:30 a.m. when the Somali police pushed us to a corner of the airport right...
...black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released on $300,000 bail, which he raised by pledging $1.25 million worth of property that he owns in Pontiac, Mich...
...Died. Leroy Gore, 73, self-described "thoroughly conservative Republican country editor" of the weekly Sauk City (Wis.) Star who was alarmed by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist excesses, started an unsuccessful "Joe Must Go" drive in 1954 and lost his newspaper after being harassed by local authorities; of emphysema; in Jefferson...
...Leroy Burton...
Politicians have been quick to recognize a test whose time has come. Says California State Assemblyman Leroy Greene: "When a youngster gets out of high school, I expect him to be able to read a newspaper article, tell me what it said, and write me a couple hundred words on it in proper English." Adds Alabama State Senator Bill King, who has just introduced a minimal competency bill: "Taxpayers see so much money going into education yet producing students without basic skills. Legislators want to account for all of that money...