Word: airport
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Resettled in North Carolina, they were welcomed at Greensboro airport by hundreds of Americans bearing flowers and gifts. Conceded Lieutenant Governor Robert Jordan: "It may take more than one generation for them to feel * comfortable with us." But many Americans agreed that resettlement in the U.S. was the least that could be done. Said a State Department official who processed them through refugee camps: "They had been allies...
Southern Air Transport of Miami reported itmade 15 flights into a military airport in ElSalvador. The flights coincide with creation of anair resupply wing to carry weapons to the Contrarebels--an effort that government sources saidanonymously was managed by North...
...They originated, so South Korea claimed, with announcements made by North Koreans over loudspeakers along the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone that divides the two countries. The same rumors popped up independently in Peking, Hanoi and Tokyo, apparently before officials in Seoul began spreading the word. Until Kim's ceremonial airport appearance, the North Koreans did nothing either to dispel or confirm the story. Little could be made of their unresponsiveness: in one of the world's most hermetically sealed societies, official silence is the rule rather than the exception...
Moments after landing at Manila International Airport last week following a four-day trip to Tokyo, Philippine President Corazon (Cory) Aquino spoke frankly of the fear and tension she felt during her voyage. "My visit to Japan was undertaken with some hesitation," she said. "I was leaving Manila while it was seething with dark rumors...
...harsh enough insult. When South African State President P.W. Botha paid a "private visit" to France last week, he was greeted at Orly Airport not by Premier Jacques Chirac, as diplomatic practice would normally dictate, but by the Foreign Ministry's chief of protocol. Chirac explained the snub by saying that any contact with Botha "would be considered a breach of solidarity with our African friends...