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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

08 Jun 1986

Page 10

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 08, 1986

Page

10

Chief asks to visit graves of Bunce Island slaves

On Bunce Island near Freetown Sierra Leone pupils sent letters to Chief I. L. Sesay after American anthropologist Joseph Opala visited. They learned about enslaved blacks who may have survived and requested the chief visit graves in the United States to bless the departed.

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Bunce Thomas L. Heminger Joseph Opala Tasso Island Bunce Island Opala Europe Rhonda Rachelle Smith America Shawn Taylor Africa Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther King Jr Dr. King Damon Wright King U.S Freetown Barbara Johnson Diana Moxhay Sierra Leone
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Hijacking at National Airport Flight 726 Involves Martin Lacayo

An Interior Ministry communiqué identifies the hijacker as 21 year old Martin Martinez Lacayo. He announced a desire to reach the United States to be with a sister. Police say he has a prior arrest for stealing in 1981. He was subdued without a shot fired as Aeronica Flight 726 was commandeered before takeoff for El Salvador and Mexico City.

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Interior Ministry Martin Martinez Lacayo United States Martinez Lacayo Nicaragua Aeronica el Salvador Mexico City
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