Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ivory trail leading out of Africa varies according to the latest regulation and the current loophole. In recent years ivory has been smuggled aboard every mode of transportation, from commercial jetliners to the single- masted dhows that ply the ancient sea routes of the Indian Ocean...
...travel without an exit permit. Those who could slip into Poland converged on Bonn's compound in Warsaw. And when special trains carrying the refugees to West Germany were routed back through their homeland, near riots resulted. Dozens clambered over fences, lunged at the passing cars and climbed aboard, convinced that the moving trains offered the last opportunity...
Dula's nemesis has been the U.S. Government, which refuses to let American firms launch satellites on Soviet rockets. Washington insists that such a practice would violate laws against the transfer of advanced technology. But Dula is pressing the Administration for a license to place a U.S. communications satellite aboard a Soviet Proton rocket. His perseverance is understandable. The Soviets would probably charge more than $50 million for a launch; Dula's company, Space Commerce, would pocket half the profit...
...Chad. Twenty minutes into the flight, Captain Georges Ravenaud radioed the airport to report that all was normal. Flight 772 was never heard from again. High above the desolate Tenere desert in neighboring Niger, the plane exploded, killing all 157 passengers and its 14- member crew. Among those aboard were seven Americans, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Chad, Robert Pugh...
...empty sand, suggesting that the aircraft had broken up at high altitude. U.S. ^ air-safety experts flown in to investigate agreed that the fragmented evidence suggested a "Lockerbie-type explosion," a reference to the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland last Dec. 21, killing all 259 aboard. On Saturday investigators said data from flight recorders confirmed that a midair explosion had caused the crash, touching off an intensive search for those responsible...