Word: aire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Streetbeat"--whose removal has provoked many letters calling for its reinstatement--will be off the air until January, when the station chiefs reevaluate all their programming, Peters said. Until then, the station will fill the Streetbeat time slot with Harvard Hockey games and a reggae program...
...next "signal" from the U.S. may be an agreement to pay compensation to survivors of those killed in the Iran Air passenger plane shot down in July 1988 by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. has already begun paying families of non-Iranian passengers, but compensation to Iranians, who account for most of the 290 people aboard, has been held up by a lawsuit the Tehran government is pursuing against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice...
Less than a week before he was scheduled to face trial on felony charges relating to his activities in the Iran-contra scandal, Richard Secord copped a plea. The retired Air Force Major General admitted that he had lied to congressional investigators when he denied knowing that $13,800 from the Iran arms-sales deal went to pay for a security system at Oliver North's home...
...latest example of perestroika, a new airline called ASDA is being formed to compete with Aeroflot. Staffed by Soviet air force veterans and disgruntled Aeroflot pilots, the carrier will fly rented Boeing 747s on long- haul routes connecting such far-flung points as Kiev, Kamchatka, Moscow and Minsk. A straight-faced Soviet news report promised that the new airline will raise the level of passenger service. Travelers can only hope...
...stroke of midnight, East Berliners began coming through, some waving their blue ID cards in the air. West Berliners embraced them, offered them champagne and even handed them deutsche mark notes to finance a celebration (the East German mark, a nonconvertible currency, is almost worthless outside the country). "I just can't believe it!" exclaimed Angelika Wache, 34, the first visitor to cross at Checkpoint Charlie. "I don't feel like I'm in prison anymore!" shouted one young man. Torsten Ryl, 24, was one of many who came over just to see what the West was like. "Finally...