Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characteristics we associate with "race" and "ethnicity"--we reveal the very real prominence it has in our society and even in our daily lives. I defy someone to tell me they do not notice the color of the person who reads the evening news or drives them to the airport or walks toward them on a dark street late at night...
...inexplicable about the mass phenomenon that rescued the island nation from a failing dictatorship, enabling thousands of unarmed civilians to protect one faction of the armed forces from the other, there was no doubt when the process began. It was Aug. 21, 1983, on the tarmac at Manila international airport. On that day, Opposition Politician Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was slain by a single bullet as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Marcos tried to put the blame on Communist...
...chase after every hot story of the week." ABC did send Ted Koppel and his Nightline crew to cover the story. But after leaving New York City for the Philippines over the weekend, they were stranded in Hong Kong on Monday night because Manila's airport was closed. They finally got into the Philippines, with 100 cases of equipment, on Tuesday...
...widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding a flight out of the country. Meanwhile, calls for the resignation of two members of the ruling council closely associated with Baby Doc grew more insistent. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, Haiti's acting head of government, repeated earlier vows...
When Ferdinand Marcos arrived in Hawaii last week, he looked like most other visitors to the island paradise. Bowing to have a lei draped around his neck on an airport tarmac similar to the one Benigno Aquino was gunned down upon, all that the former Filipino strongman needed to complete the costume of a stereotypical vacationer was an instamatic camera dangling from his neck...