Word: rescuers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beef cattle from their keepers," the other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes off his daughter. Her rescuer appears in the person of Raza Hyder, a Muslim captain in the Indian army. After the partition of the subcontinent, Hyder marries the young woman and takes her "west to the new, moth-nibbled land of God," to Pakistan...
...going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard all kinds of noises," said the rescuer, Billy Ebrech. "I heard screaming and yelling...
Similarly, Allegheny International played rescuer to Sunbeam in late 1981, saving it from takeover by IC Industries, Inc. Soon, however, Sunbeam Chief Robert Gwinn and 160 of his colleagues found themselves out of jobs. Complained one executive: "They went at us with a meat ax. If Allegheny is a white knight, God save us from white knights." But Allegheny has complaints too. Chairman Robert Buckley said he discovered in Sunbeam "problems under the surface that were greater than they seemed...
...Marxist offshoot of the outlawed I.R.A. with allegedly close ties to Eastern Europe, claimed credit for the blast, one of the worst incidents in the province since the current bombing campaign was launched more than a decade ago.* The result was hardly creditworthy. "It was carnage," said one rescuer. "Mutilated bodies were lying everywhere." Said the wife of the local pharmacist: "Bodies were strewn all around, and injured survivors, some with ghastly wounds, staggered about in a state of shock." Others told of carrying out victims who had lost limbs, while doctors from Londonderry, 14 miles to the northeast, worked...
...rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker...