Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Cuban Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz boarded a small Cessna 402 one afternoon last week along with his wife and three children, he apparently told Cuban airport authorities that he merely intended to take a flying jaunt around the island. Instead, he headed for Key West Naval Air Station 90 miles away. Picked up by radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking...
Mikhail Gorbachev stepped from his gleaming white Ilyushin 62 jet at Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, his lips tightened almost to a grimace. Overhead, staring down from the roof of the terminal building, were two giant portraits, one of Gorbachev, the other of his host, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. On the tarmac below, workers roared a dual greeting -- "Ceau-Ses-Cu! Gor-Ba-Chev!" The Soviet leader, who has downplayed the personality cults favored by his predecessors in the Kremlin, was plainly appalled. Quickly traversing a vast expanse of red carpet to reach a microphone erected in expectation...
Ceausescu, for his part, indicated that he would not be cowed by Moscow's new boy. The regime ordered eight Western journalists turned back at the airport. Because the international press is usually granted access to Rumania, some diplomatic observers interpreted the abrupt about-face as both a retaliation for past critical reporting and a calculated swipe at Gorbachev's beloved glasnost campaign. "This is not openness," said U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmerman. "This is closedness...
...sectors of airspace. With another keystroke he eliminated hundreds of tiny black dots showing the location of low-flying aircraft and private jets. What remained on the screen were larger, winged symbols representing commercial airliners. With a few more key taps he color-coded the jetliners according to their airport destination: red for La Guardia, green for Newark, brown for John F. Kennedy...
...meanest guerrilla leader of them all. Sentenced to death by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid- 1970s for trying to assassinate P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, Abu Nidal has long been ostracized by his peers for arranging the murders of moderate Palestinians and staging such atrocities as the 1985 airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. For several weeks, however, Arafat has reportedly been contemplating a rapprochement with Abu Nidal in the name of Palestinian unity. "Politics is politics," said an Arafat aide in Tunis last week, confirming that a reconciliation was still under consideration, provided Abu Nidal agrees to curb...