Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jerusalem Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who covered Shcharansky's joyful arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, was struck by his subject's aplomb and good humor. "With his command of the situation," says Flamini, "it seemed clear that Shcharansky was going to remain a newsmaker." Associate Editor Patricia Blake, who has written dozens of stories on Soviet dissidents and their struggle for human rights, including cover stories on Nobel Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and Shcharansky himself, was pressed into service. Blake flew from New York to Jerusalem, where she succeeded in gaining one of the first exclusive interviews with Shcharansky. "I placed...
...politics rather than at center stage. Aquino's wrenching entry into an active role in Philippine public life can be dated from Aug. 21, 1983. On that date her husband, Opposition Politician Benigno Aquino Jr., was gunned down while getting off a China Airlines Boeing 767 at Manila International Airport on his return from three years of exile in the U.S. Suddenly his wife was catapulted into the position of a national saint...
...Force One landed at Point Saline International Airport, scene of some of the strongest resistance to the invading U.S. Army Rangers and Marines from Cuban soldiers and construction workers armed with automatic rifles. Twenty-four Cubans were killed in the fighting...
...ARRIVED IN SANTIAGO, Chile with my father on Dec. 15, 1985, at 1:30 a.m. The first sight that greeted us as we emerged from the airport was a sign looming above that read, "Chile progresses in peace and order...
BECAUSE THE FACE of a free nation in Chile is a facade on every level. When we first drove in from the airport, we were shown houses damaged by a serious earthquake that hit Chile the year before last. There were holes in some of them, but most of the houses, our friends explained, fell inward, leaving the four outside walls standing with nothing left inside. Chile is also a four-walled facade, inside which terror strikes under the cover of night...