Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people aboard the plane died, including all three members of the cockpit crew. It was the worst domestic airline crash in 1972. Among the victims were Congressman George Washington Collins, 47, a black who won a November victory in Chicago's racially mixed Seventh District, and Michele Clark, 29, a Washington-based CBS newscaster...
...Amharic. Their skyjacking attempt turned out to be brief, bloody and singularly unsuccessful. Ethiopian security men, who have been aboard all the airline's international flights with orders to shoot to kill, also jumped up and commenced firing. Six of the skyjackers were killed outright and the seventh died later in a hospital of wounds sustained in the shooting...
CENTRAL CINEMA II. Seventh Seal 6:15, 9:35 wknd mat. 3. Wild Strawberries 8, wknd...
After examining some 22,000 pages of trial transcripts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit severely scolded the presiding judge, Julius J. Hoffman, 76, who is on senior status on the district court and therefore now carries a reduced case load. The court ruled that Judge Hoffman had not only made numerous legal errors but had biased the jury by repeatedly making sarcastic remarks about the defendants or their lawyers. Said the opinion: "The demeanor of the judge and prosecutors would require reversal [even] if other errors did not." The court thus overturned the convictions of Rennie...
...from over: MacStiofáin said he would starve himself to death unless released. It did not seem to be an idle threat. In the past half century five I.R.A. men have sought martyrdom by continuing a hunger strike to the agonizing end. MacStiofáin was on the seventh day of his hunger and thirst strike when he was carried into court on a chair. Weak, barely able to speak, he sat wrapped in blankets; a prison doctor, who periodically revived MacStiofáin, told reporters later that the I.R.A. chief could barely last three or four more days...