Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Il-76 cargo plane lifted slowly into the bright morning air over Kabul International Airport last week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private...
...case has produced its share of wild scenes, charges and countercharges. At a Phoenix airport two weeks ago, a hysterical Cheryl Pitts chased after Navajo social workers who she claims seized the child and spirited her away to the reservation. Keetso and the Pittses charge that Navajo officials violated an understanding that Allyssa would be placed solely in the care of her maternal grandmother until the hearing. Instead, they say, the child was left in the home of a stranger, where she was neglected and quickly fell ill. Tribal authorities deny that such an understanding existed and contend that...
...Francisco, ferries once again churn across the bay, shuttling cars and passengers to Marin and Solano counties. Last year Seattle-area ferries carried 18 million riders, more than the number of people who passed through the Seattle-Tacoma airport. "People who live around Puget Sound love their ferries," says Therese Ogle of Washington State Ferries. "They just scoff at bridges...
They are not alone. In Boston bridges and tunnels linking downtown to Logan Airport are routinely jammed. But the Airport Water Shuttle speeds riders from the waterfront district to Logan in seven minutes. A second service brings in commuters from the suburbs south of the city...
...condition; some of those who were released said they had been manacled and herded into the front rows of the jumbo jet and had not been permitted to read or speak. Plastic bindings had cut deep into their wrists. Toilets became so fouled that some hostages were sickened; Algiers airport workers were finally allowed to clean up. Ramadan Ali, an engineer who holds dual Egyptian and American citizenship and who was one of the twelve hostages released in Larnaca, told of hiding his U.S. passport in a briefcase. He said a hijacker saw his U.S. driver's license but evidently...