Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian politician to come to power in Pakistan's 32 years of independence, was hastily interred last week before the country...
...contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots, attendants and other crew members...
Airbus sales did not begin to take off until last year, when Eastern Air Lines bought 23 of the $33 million A300s. Since then the backlog of Airbus orders has doubled, to $6.3 billion; today the firm accounts for one out of three sales of new wide-bodied planes. Indeed, since last year, it has sold almost as many wide-bodies as Boeing and more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard...
Only 65 Airbuses are in service, but the consortium has 177 firm orders and 93 options from 21 airlines. It also has strong prospects for further buys from carriers that are not now customers, including Air Afrique, Britain's Laker Airways and Japan's domestic TOA. Lathière insists that present customers alone assure the consortium of the 360 sales it needs to break even on the A300, the 251-to 336-seat prime Airbus model...
...turned many aborigines into drunkards. By 10 a.m. the main street of Alice Springs is littered with squatting aborigines waiting for the bars to open, their alcoholism bankrolled by government dole. Only a few years ago, the Cinta Largas tribe in Brazil was bombed and strafed from the air, and the survivors gunned down by hunting parties, all to permit loggers to clear the tribe's lands...