Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killers chose their moment well. Attorney General Carlos Hoyos Jimenez had just spent the week in Medellin, drug capital of Colombia, investigating the suspicious release from jail of Cocaine Cowboy Jorge Ochoa Vasquez. Hoyos was headed for the airport to return to Bogota. Suddenly, three jeeps and a car forced Hoyos' Mercedes off the road. Several men jumped out and sprayed the Attorney General's car with machine-gun fire, apparently wounding Hoyos and instantly killing his bodyguard and driver. Hoyos, his head bowed and bloody, was dragged from the vehicle and kidnaped. Hours later his bullet-riddled body...
...heartbreaking when the Vikings lost to Washington--it was even worse when a local TV station interrupted regular programming to show the Vikings de-planing at home. Unbelievably, cheering fans waited for their team outside the airport, and barelegged cheerleaders jumped around in the freezing cold...
Harvard Real Estate sent its workers home early. The School of Continuing Education cancelled classes. And Logan Airport grounded its planes...
...National Weather Service spokesman said that the storm dumped eight inches at Logan Airport. Logan closed three times yesterday because of snow-clogged runways, according to Airport spokesman John P. Spellman...
...farm in Stuttgart, Ark.; and -- in a special dig at the legislators -- $500,000 to bring leaders of emerging democracies to the U.S. to study the workings of Congress. Not even Reagan has the chutzpah to mention one particularly large chunk of pork: $25 million for an unnecessary new airport near Fort Worth, the hometown of House Speaker Jim Wright. After all, Wright will be sitting just behind the President...