Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visa at a U.S. consulate in Australia, Beane won a court battle that allowed him to stay in that country. Instead, he voluntarily decided to return to the U.S. so he could visit his ailing father in West Rutland, Vt. But when he landed at Los Angeles airport, U.S. marshals arrested him, and the Marine Corps later officially charged him with desertion and other crimes related to his Viet Nam days. If convicted, Beane could face life imprisonment. Christine Beane, the mother of the former Marine, said, "All I want is to see him get his life together...
...ideological chasms separating John Paul from his official hosts were evident from the minute his airplane landed at Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Polish * Leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski, noting that the martial law in effect during the Pope's last visit had been lifted shortly after his departure, warned his guest that the one matter not open to papal "initiative" was "acceptance of the socialist principles of our state." It did not take long for John Paul to disregard that rule. Speaking to a group of academics at the Catholic University of Lublin, he called for a re-examination...
...Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary "Red Baron" of World War I. Rust's status as instant folk hero was further certified by the appearance in West Berlin of $8 T shirts with a drawing of the flyer's Cessna in its now famous background and the inscription INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, RED SQUARE. OPENING MAY 28, 1987. Indeed, so persistent was the hoopla surrounding the strange case of Mathias Rust that Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov jokingly suggested that the "Cessna company organized all of this mess for advertising purposes." Not likely. As they say on Madison Avenue...
Kelly's arrival from Logan Airport was delayed, and the crowd on Mass. Ave. grew antsy. It also grew large. As the clock ticked on, the number of students milling about the Square waiting for Kelly multiplied from about...
...Larry masterminded the Pogo Riot," Lukas says. Savadove, it turns out, picked Kelly up at the airport, but took him for a pit stop at at a bar before driving on to Cambridge...