Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't get an American distribution deal, and I was in despair. Nothing was coming to me from the studios, and I decided to make a break from Hollywood. Richard Boyle, the guy a lot of the film is based on, was a friend. On the way to the airport one day, he gave me some notes. "Here, you might like this," he said. I read the sketches of his trips to El Salvador, and my mind clicked. "This is it," I said. "I am going to make Salvador. It's cheap. It's close...
Last week at Frankfurt airport, West German customs agents seized a man who had just arrived on a flight from Beirut. The arrest took place after officials noticed three suspicious-looking bottles in a suitcase the man had opened for inspection. Upon closer scrutiny, the agents recognized the liquid in the bottles as methylnitrate, an explosive similar to nitroglycerine. The man, who called himself "Youssef Rida," was immediately taken into custody and charged with planning a terrorist bombing...
Hamadei was the second suspected terrorist to be arrested in Europe last week. In Italy, police at Milan airport seized another Lebanese man, Bachir Khodr, 26, who arrived from Beirut. Inspection of picture frames and chocolate Easter eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with...
Bush is a man of action rather than reflection. He prefers talking out problems to reading written staff summaries. Doubts about a particular decision set off a flurry of activity, as though sheer motion will somehow make them go away. Campaigning, he moves along an airport rope line, a metallic smile flashing on and off his face, racing almost manically through the process. It is no surprise that the Vice President greatly prefers power- boats to sail. Power, he says, saves time...
Travelers aboard Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi's $40 million DC-8 enjoyed the last word in airborne luxury. But last week the jetliner, with its three bedrooms, crystal goblets and Russian sable bedspread, was seized by police at Le Bourget Airport in Paris under a court order obtained by British Industrialist Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, who seeks repayment of a $2.5 million loan...