Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commercial aircraft of all types will have ranges of about 5,000 miles and will cruise at about 700 mph," Thomas wrote. "Airports and factories will be located in places which are now uninhabited waste space, and the long, tedious ride to board the plane will be eliminated by helicopter shuttle service between the airport and the business and residential districts of any town...
...General Ver, who had effectively appropriated their functions within the military and the Cabinet. The U.S. has long pressured Marcos to get rid of Ver, who last December was acquitted along with 25 others of conspiracy charges in the August 1983 assassination of Ninoy Aquino at Manila International Airport. Marcos announced last week that Ver would retire on March 1 and Ramos would become "acting" head of the armed services. But most military and government officials speculated that Ver would still keep his more powerful position as director of the civilian intelligence organization. "Marcos was just fooling us, fooling...
...Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
Waiting along with Peres to welcome Shcharansky at Ben Gurion Airport were a number of Cabinet ministers and politicians, together with the country's two Chief Rabbis. As the plane came to a halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into...
...last Monday morning, as he was reading from the work of the German author Friedrich Schiller, Shcharansky was told to take off his prison uniform and don civilian clothing. Escorted by four KGB agents, he was then flown to a Moscow airport and put aboard another plane, which took off immediately. "Judging from the sun," he said later, "I concluded that we were flying toward the west. I was pleased because it seemed I was leaving the Soviet Union." When he asked the KGB agents where they were heading, one replied that he was authorized to say Shcharansky was being...