Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours after the seagoing hijack drama had ended, a flight of four F-14 Tomcat fighter-interceptors from the aircraft carrier Saratoga pulled alongside a chartered EgyptAir Boeing 737 jetliner just south of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The Egyptian aircraft had left Cairo's Al Maza military airport 1 hour and 45 minutes earlier, apparently headed for Tunis. Aboard it were the hijackers, accompanied by two representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a number of Egyptian diplomats and security officials...
...view, it was crucial to keep the Achille Lauro from docking anywhere. Seared into the memory of Administration officials was last June's TWA hijacking ordeal. When the captured jetliner was allowed to land at Beirut airport, its Shi'ite hijackers were able to disperse their 37 hostages into the surrounding urban slums, dragging out the kidnaping drama for 17 days. This time Administration crisis managers were also thinking that a rescue in international waters would be far easier than one in Syria or Lebanon...
...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
...pomp and circumstance, it seemed that some of the sizzle had gone out of Gorbachev's celebrated style. From the moment of his airport appearance, the General Secretary seemed faintly subdued. Unlike some of the off-the-cuff speeches that he has delivered at home, his remarks in Paris often had a formulaic quality, as if written by committee...
...since 1976, when its commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue a planeload of passengers being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen, had Israel launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried...