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...suppression of life, to obtain information." The announcement, the first official confirmation of such abuses during the so-called Dirty War, follows the recent confessions by two former military men that they took part in secret "death flights," in which sedated but still living victims were thrown from aircraft into the Atlantic...
Kluttz says he was also motivated by the memory of the bombing of the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut that occurred while he was stationed off-shore there on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy. Two hundred and forty-one U.S. service personnel were killed in the October 1983 blast...
...Nhut was soon followed by a rocket and artillery bombardment. The rockets killed two Marines: Lance Corporal Darwin Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Corporal Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts. Two Marine helicopter pilots also died on April 29 when their chopper crashed into the sea near an aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea of El Paso, Texas. They were the last four Americans killed in action in Vietnam...
...which could be great news for shareholders. What Chrysler and its employees stand to gain is another question. Since 1990 the company has made a tremendous turnaround, streamlining its design and manufacturing process to become the most profitable U.S. automaker. It also shed nonessential businesses like Gulfstream corporate aircraft, acquired in the 1980s under Iacocca. For 1994, Chrysler reported a record profit of $3.7 billion on revenues of $52 billion. Dodge Ram pickup trucks, Cirrus sedans and the Jeep Grand Cherokee were established hits, and promising new products like the Neon had come on market. Toyota engineers even went...
...wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue as a licensee of broadcast stations...