Word: airport
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...group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Cells claimed responsibility for planting the bomb. Palestinian sources familiar with terrorist operations said Thursday that was a new name used by Abu Nidal, the terrorist leader widely blamed for the December 27 airport massacres at Rome and Vienna...
...explosion occurred at floor level in rows 10 or 11 of the passenger cabin, blowing one seat out through the hole as the jet flew at 15,000 feet, TWA President Richard D. Pearson said in New York. A senior Athens airport security official, Panagiotiso Christopoulos, had said the blast occurred in the cargo section below the seats...
Greeted with flowers at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Katerina ("Katya") Lycheva, 11, smiled and said in her careful English, "I am very glad to see you, and I think we will be friends." For the next two weeks, Katya's mission is to meet American children "and tell them as much as I can about the Soviet Union." Sponsored by the San Francisco-based Children of the Peacemakers, her visit was inspired by a similar 1983 trip to the U.S.S.R. by Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who died last summer in a plane crash and has become a hero...
...Aquino's establishment of a seven-member human rights-committee last week only heightened concern. Committee Chairman Jose Diokno announced that the government would reopen an investigation into the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno, who was gunned down in August 1983 at Manila International Airport. When asked what would happen if the committee found evidence that former Marcos officials now allied with the Aquino government were involved in the murder, Diokno replied, "If they knew about it and did nothing, they are at least administratively guilty...
...told them that his wallet and credit cards had been stolen at the airport and that his parents couldn't be reached. The dean's office was unaware of any foul play...