Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's sudden departure, a day earlier than planned, meant the canceling of many arrangements: a sight-seeing tour of Manhattan for Gorbachev and wife Raisa, and then visits to Cuba and Britain. "I have to be there," Gorbachev said simply in a farewell speech at Kennedy International Airport. Arriving in Moscow on Friday morning, he flew on to Leninakan on Saturday, which had been declared a day of national mourning...
...worldwide outpouring of aid has overwhelmed the backward, mountainous region hit hardest by the Armenian earthquake, clogging Yerevan's airport and the two crude highways that link it with the devastation...
Foreign aircraft bringing in blood, medical supplies, food, clothing and rescue equipment wait hours to be unloaded at the airport in Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia...
Crates of supplies flown in by more than 40 foreign aircraft were stacked around the airport tarmac waiting for trucks, buses and helicopters to take them to stricken areas...
...Sunday, a Soviet military plane bringing soldiers to help the rescue effort crashed as it approached Leninakan's airport, killing 78 people. An unofficial report from the Armenian news agency Armenpress said it made one pass on a runway, which was damaged by the earthquake and clogged with traffic, and struck a nearby mountain while turning to try again...