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- <text id=92TT0923>
- <title>
- Apr. 27, 1992: Anniversaries
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 27, 1992 The Untold Story of Pan Am 103
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- Anniversaries
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 80 YEARS AGO: Women and Children First? When the Titanic sank
- on April 14, 1912, more than 80% of those who drowned were men.
- Many had relinquished lifeboat seats to members of the gentler
- sex. Eight decades later, the dictates of Edwardian civility no
- longer hold much water. In a survey the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- learned that only 35% of the men on a Titanic II today would
- cede their lifeboat spots to children or women who weren't
- their wives. A mere 54% would give up seats for their mothers
- and 67% for their spouses.
- </p>
- <p> 50 YEARS AGO: Turning Point. Having surrendered to the
- Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops
- marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942.
- Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died
- en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide
- started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut.
- Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo.
- Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an
- annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the
- attack.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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