Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would rather walk around Athens airport waving an Israeli flag than walk around the Port Authority [bus station] in New York waving my wallet," William A. Davis, travel editor of The Boston Globe, told the audience of 37 at the K-School's IOP forum on "Terrorism and Tourism: Flying the Unfriendly Skies...
...they've made us change our habits of travel, then they've accomplished some of their objectives, and that's unfortunate," said State Police Capt. Edward Cronin, head of security at Logan International Airport...
Next on the hit list was the military section of the Tripoli International Airport, base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...military targets. The U.S. displayed aerial photographs of the damage at the Benina air base near Benghazi showing the wreckage of at least four MiG-23 Flogger jets, two Mi-8 Hip lightweight helicopters and two F27 propeller-driven aircraft. The Pentagon estimates that at the Tripoli military airport the U.S. took out five Il-76 transports and caused major damage to several buildings. Defense officials admit that damage to the Sidi Bilal facility was less than they had expected, and withheld the results of bombing at the Benghazi barracks...
...that got pregnant?" The Saatchis aroused London's sleepy advertising industry with ads that ran the gamut from funny to blunt to dazzling. Their celebrated 90-sec. TV spot for British Airways seemed to show the entire island of Manhattan coming in for a landing at London's Heathrow Airport, a metaphor for the millions of passengers that the airline carries across the Atlantic...