The World - News from April 6, 1987
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British police confirmed the death of a metallurgist involved in secret defense work. It was the fifth such case in the past eight months involving a death under mysterious circumstances, and a sixth scientist, an expert on submarine warfare equipment, vanished in January. Police in Thames Valley said that Peter Peapell, 46, a lecturer at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, died Feb. 22, apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd ordered police working in the individual cases to coordinate their investigations.
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