Word: ziemer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...