Word: lincoln
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...have been shipped to Phnom-Penh and Kompong Som in Cambodia by relief agencies throughout the world. But Cambodia's government is holding up distribution because of fears the aid will end up in the hands of Khmer Rouge rebels. "Most of it is still in warehouses," says Lincoln Bloomfield, head of the National Security Council's Office of Global Affairs...
...Tracking Lincoln's murderer, Edward's jewels and other prey...
...example: since Lincoln's assassination 115 years ago, scores of books have been written about the conspiracy and the characters surrounding it. None has dispelled the legend that the man who was tried and hanged for the crime, Actor John Wilkes Booth, was not the real murderer. The Cosgrove Report by G.J.A. O'Toole (Rawson, Wade; 424 pages; $12.95), though fictional, makes the strongest case yet that Booth escaped. This is not an easy task: the actor had one of the most familiar faces...
...novel purports to be "the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln," as edited and verified in recent years by another private investigator, Michael Croft, Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.). The Pinkerton man, a Jules Vernian character named Nicholas Cosgrove, has been retained...
...when those hill people in 1861 seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the felling of not knowing whether...