Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. Air Force Two lifts off exactly on schedule. On board with Bush are 18 aides, 15 Secret Service agents and three reporters. The Vice President sits in a swivel chair in the front cabin with former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Lehman, champion of the 600-ship Navy, is Bush's heavyweight sidekick for the day (yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight...
...Mobile. Among those greeting Bush at the airport is a bevy of Azalea Trail maids in phosphorescent Scarlett O'Hara crinolines. One reporter wonders whether the Secret Service has checked under the hoopskirts: "You could hide a Stinger missile in there." Bruce Zanca, a Bush advanceman, uses a ramp phone resting on the runway to call Air Force Two. The telephone is one of the 101 special phone lines that will be installed for the Bush entourage that day at Government expense...
...Greenville. Governor Campbell meets Bush at the airport and rides with him to his hotel...
...They had brought the weapons and explosives aboard the plane in their musical instruments," Tass reported. It gave no details of the Ovechkins' background and did not say how they managed to elude airport security...
...airport at Irkutsk, 2600 miles southeast of Moscow, is a major hub for flights throughout Siberia, and is often jammed with people who sometimes wait for days to make connecting flights...