Word: airport
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...small charter companies that fly out of Grand Canyon National Park Airport, Las Vegas and other airports in Arizona, California and Utah argue earnestly that banning aircraft would deprive the elderly, the very young and the handicapped of their only chance to see the Grand Canyon from the inside out. With some 2.5 million visitors each year, the operators maintain, the park would not be serene even if there were no flights. "This is the last place I'd come for peace and quiet," jokes Judy Fogwell of Grand Canyon Helicopters...
...small charter companies that fly out of Grand Canyon National Park Airport, Las Vegas and other airports in Arizona, California and Utah argue earnestly that banning aircraft would deprive the elderly, the very young and the handicapped of their only chance to see the Grand Canyon from the inside out. With some 2.5 million visitors each year, the operators maintain, the park would not be serene even if there were no flights. "This is the last place I'd come for peace and quiet," jokes Judy Fogwell of Grand Canyon Helicopters...
...return. Asked if he was glad to be back in the U.S., the Wanderer replied, "No. Sorry." And what did he plan to do now? "Keep on walking." Weymouth's mother had paid for an airline ticket for her son to return to San Francisco, but at Anchorage airport, he traded it in for a ticket to Seattle...
...London, a major tragedy was averted at Heathrow Airport Thursday morning when security guards for El Al, the Israeli airline, found a bomb in the luggage of a pregnant Irishwoman who was attempting to board a flight from New York City. The bomb was timed to go off when the flight would have been back in the air winging toward Tel Aviv. Said George Churchill-Coleman, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch: "It is highly likely that an explosion from a device of this type would have resulted in the loss of the aircraft, a 747 jumbo...
...murders, hijackings and other outrages, not only by Gaddafi but among terrorist groups that he sponsors and trains. Meanwhile the diplomatic and political fallout from the bombing raid has damaged the U.S. position in Europe. Government leaders, who had been pressed hard by the U.S. since the December airport attacks to impose diplomatic and economic sanctions on Libya, were careful to balance criticisms of the American raid with strong condemnations of Libya and terrorism. Opposition politicians, especially those on the left, were less circumspect. In the Netherlands, for example, Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek observed in fairly mild terms...