Word: airport
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...Martin Lee are gate-crashers at 1997's tea party. Patten has been vilified in the Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...
...asylum in Israel. He surrendered about an hour after the plane landed at Ovda Airforce Base in Israel's southern Negev Desert. (Jordan and Saudi Arabia both refused the hijacker's requests to land in those countries.) Allis says the man was also turned down at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv because Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin feared the hijacking might be a cover for a suicide attack. No passengers were hurt...
...travelers can buy National Bowling Stadium souvenirs right in the airport gift shops ("Reno Pinhead" caps are $14.95). On the bookshelves there, Dan Herbst's Bowling 300 shares space with Scarne's on Cards. The city and the sport are a good fit, says Eadington. "Reno by image is a working-class to middle-class locale, and that's consistent with bowlers. The way bowlers come in on these tournaments is ideal for a resort town: they're here for a fairly short period, and they don't strain the infrastructure capacity to the extent that major conferences...
...nowhere was the reaction more dramatic than in Papeete, Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, where several hundred rioters went on a rampage. In a 36-hour orgy of trashing and looting, they virtually destroyed Tahiti's international airport, smashed storefront windows and torched several buildings before French Foreign Legionnaires and paramilitary troops arrived. The upheaval, which injured 40 people and did damage estimated in the millions of dollars, was attributed to a volatile mixture of antinuclear and pro-independence sentiments...
Bergeron may have been a Bambi in the headlights, but today's Heathers-in-waiting are primed for the media glare. As the 50 alighted from a chartered plane last Monday for the start of their Atlantic City siege, they filed into the airport lounge, taking the room one high-heeled step after another. Posing outside en masse, they lined up like Rockettes. Their collective smile could give an onlooker severe retinal damage...