Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
First, as always, came the pomp and the outpourings of adulation. A military band blared and a cheering throng waved yellow-and-white papal flags at Miami International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace...
Rarely if ever has the pilgrim Pope -- this U.S. trip is his 36th major voyage since assuming the throne of St. Peter in 1978 -- been blanketed under so many layers of watchful security. The 1,500 people who traveled to Miami's airport to bid the Pope welcome ran a gauntlet of some 7,000 National Guard troops, state and local police and agents of the Secret Service, which budgeted $5.5 million for the papal trip. Their roadblocks and security checks rendered the city's streets eerily empty. The intensity of the precautions cut into the size...
...more direct in responding to the growing criticism about air safety and airport delays. "That's just not fair," she protests after calmly reciting a list of recent measures. Always poised, she is at her most confident defending her department's record. The Harvard-trained lawyer methodically prepares her material and is deft at marshaling facts. But she can be wounded by a stray remark. When told that a Democratic political consultant had joked, "At least no one can say she quit while she was ahead," Dole grew silent, wide-eyed and quietly hurt. "She takes her job very seriously...
...runways at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport were unusually congested last week -- but this time by people. Several hundred aircraft workers gathered to protest a Cabinet decision to scrap the Lavi jet fighter. After months of impassioned debate, the final ballot was close: 12 to 11, with one abstention. Most Labor Party members voted against the project, while most Likud members were for it. After the vote Likud's Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens angrily quit the Cabinet...