Word: airport
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Federal officials tightened security at California airports today after a threat, purportedly bythe elusive Unabomber,to blow up an airliner at Los Angeles International Airport sometime in the next six days. The threat appeared in a short letter received Tuesday by the San Francisco Chronicle. "WARNING," it reads. "The terrorist group FC, called unabomber by the FBI, is planning to blow up an airliner out of Los Angeles International Airport some time during the next six days. To prove that the writer of this letter knows something about FC, the first two digits of their identifying number...
There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...similar restrictions hold back the Serbs, who have delighted in turning much of Sarajevo into something like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. "The Serbs always shoot at us," says Colonel Alain Ferrand, commander of the 100 French soldiers who protect the Sarajevo airport, five miles from Grouzelle's barracks. "Every time we go to the runway or other exposed places, we get a few bullets. Usually they hit the ground 1 or 2 m [3 or 6 ft.] in front of us. And they love to shoot at night. God knows why." Ferrand says the morale...
...soldier, Stephane Itric, 21, are less qualified. The stocky chief corporal is convinced of the value of the U.N. mission and will sign up again after his six-month tour ends. "If we left, nobody would take care of [the civilians]," he says. He has been stationed at the airport, but is happy that he will soon be assigned to a nearby suburb, where he will have more contact with the locals. Since his father is from Croatia, Itric knows some Serbo-Croatian and can communicate with them. "I saw this country three years ago, peaceful and united...
...credit, Gould at least spends some ofhis time in Cambridge. Ford Professor of SocialSciences Emeritus David Riesman '34 remarked lastyear that Logan Airport has become one of the mostimportant parts of Harvard...