Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus I decided that I, Rutger Fury, would stand for office in the Soviet Union. After all, it was pretty unlikely I'd ever get elected President here. So I packed up my bags, a copy of The Prince and my toothbrush, and hightailed it to my local airport...
...Aquino Foundation was founded by a group of his friends and supporters following the opposition leaders assassination at Manila International Airport in 1983. Its aim is to foster academic opportunities in Philippine Studies, according to Ezpeleta...
...winter of 1986 I passed through La Guardia Airport while on a hectic recital tour of the U.S. In the waiting area was a table loaded with anti- Soviet literature, a sort of monument to the cold war. Above the table was a sign: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE ARMS RACE, YOU HAD BETTER STUDY RUSSIAN. I decided to have a chat with the two cheerful gentlemen who sat sipping soft drinks at the table. I wanted to find out why an American should study the language of Pushkin and Pasternak only if he felt threatened by a Soviet invasion...
...helped set off the recent rash of abductions. Some German officials fear that giving in to U.S. pressure for speedy extradition of Hamadei could lead to more West German kidnapings. Still, the Germans last week arrested Abbas Ali Hamadei, 30, the suspect's brother, at the Frankfurt airport...
...frantic negotiations between the government and rebel troops wore into a third day, attention shifted to Hawaii. There, at Honolulu International Airport, a private 707 jet was discovered parked on a runway, waiting to fly Marcos home from his Hawaiian exile. A few days earlier Wife Imelda had been spotted in a Waikiki military-surplus store buying $2,000 worth of combat gear. Moreover, a videotape had been seized in Manila that showed the deposed Marcos lifting dumbbells, shadowboxing and praying to return home. The cumulative impact hit like a bombshell. The Aquino government quickly alerted American officials, who bluntly...