Word: rodgers
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...when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack on the American embassy in Nicosia. Earlier this year, Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was killed after being kidnaped in Kabul by right-wing Muslims...
Most of the cast is competent but uninspired, and clearly a bit confused about how to interpret the play. Kirsten Giroux's Goneril is a shallow, cold bitch-queen; Janet Rodger's Regan a bit more of a bitchy housewife. Henry Woronicz's Edmund swaggers like a comic hero, an illegitimate Petruchio. Harold Levine's Cornwall is a snivelling rat of a villain, more disgusting than threatening...
Ames Astrophysicist Edwin Erickson. The team leader, Rodger Thompson of Arizona, who announced the find at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, declared the MWC 349 observations to be "a spectacular step forward in the theories of planet and star formation...
...Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies, shot and killed during a demonstration in front of the American embassy in Nicosia...
...Soon after U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger P. Davies was assassinated in Nicosia in 1974, U.S. intelligence officials reported the killers' identity to high Cypriot officials, but the assassins are still serving in the Cypriot government security forces. Officials of both the CIA and the State Department denied the story, saying the U.S. does not know who killed Davies...