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Aerial firefighting is also risky, as it often requires flying at low altitude through poor visibility. Nine people died in a helicopter crash during the Buckhorn fire in northern California last year, and last month a pilot died in the crash of a single-engine tanker near Reno, Nevada. (The Station fire has so far claimed the lives of two ground-based firefighters after their fire truck fell down a hillside.) Yet, as we're again reminded this year, tanker flights are favorite action shot of television news shows - California fire officials have dubbed them "CNN drops" - and that makes...
...meet the family of Robert McCartney - the father of two allegedly murdered by IRA members in a Belfast bar earlier that year - was highly embarrassing for Sinn Fein. The McCartney murder, and Kennedy's reaction to it, added to the pressure on Sinn Fein to cooperate with police in Northern Ireland - something the party had historically refused to do. Today, Sinn Fein representatives sit on Northern Ireland's Policing Board, and the party routinely calls on the public to assist the police with inquiries. (See a Kennedy family photo album...
...while Hume described him on Wednesday as "a great friend of Ireland and great supporter of the peace process," what will be Kennedy's lasting legacy in Northern Ireland...
...wilder voices of Irish America in check. There were a lot of headlines in the 1970s about his calls for 'troops out,' but I think as time went on he was a moderating influence, pushing [Irish] Republicans along a political path." (See pictures of the British army withdrawing from Northern Ireland...
...opened at the U.S. Consulate in Belfast, a commemoration was held in the small town of Warrenpoint to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the bloodiest days in the Troubles, when 18 British soldiers were killed by a bomb planted by the IRA outside the town. As Northern Irish politicians travel to Kennedy's funeral in Arlington, Va., this weekend, perhaps the most fitting tribute to him, and to all of those who worked on the Northern Ireland peace process, is that events like the bombing in Warrenpoint - and the other deadly chapters from the Troubles being observed this...