Word: airport
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...period in 57 years, commissioners in six Utah counties first applied their customary solution. They urged residents to pray for an end to the rain that has been swelling Great Salt Lake, which has risen 13 ft. in the past five years, threatening Interstate 80, Salt Lake City international airport and shoreline industries that mean $1 billion to the state...
...blast came only four days after a bomb went off in the tail section of an Air Lanka Lockheed Tristar L-1011 minutes before a delayed takeoff from the Katunayake International Airport, 18 miles outside Colombo. Airline officials insisted that all luggage had been X-rayed, but the bomb is believed to have been hidden in a crate of vegetables, which apparently was not examined. The explosion snapped the plane in two as flames and debris shot from the broken fuselage. Passengers were hurriedly evacuated. Sixteen people died, most of them European and Japanese tourists on their way to beach...
...himself spending $2.1 million teaching Californians to pronounce his name. (Try shout without the t.) This campaign, in a state as vast and variegated as California, must be waged in 60-second television ads, which must be fueled by endless fund raisers. As Zschau explains, between bites of an airport snack shop's meatball sandwich, "You simply can't shake enough hands and kiss enough babies to get elected in this state...
When President Reagan landed in hot, humid Bali last week, those oft-mentioned "winds of freedom" were not blowing. Moments after Reagan's party touched down at Ngurah Rai Airport, Indonesian officials met the White House press plane and escorted two reporters from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. to the terminal, where they were forced to wait for the next outbound plane. The journalists were denied entry under a ban triggered by an article in a Sydney newspaper that charged members of Indonesian President Suharto's family and some of his associates with pocketing billions of dollars through shady business deals...
...comment on the decision by the Collegium Musicum, a Harvard singing group, to cancel its tour of Britain (see story at right), moderator Edith Flynn, a professor at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, said "they would have been perfectly all right." She said London's Heathrow Airport has very strong security...