Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins in Qunu, the Xhosa village where Mandela grew up and where he has been vacationing for the past week. Fog and rain blanket the Transkei hills, so the President must forgo his usual daily morning walk. At 5 a.m. he heads for the airport, where his jet waits to fly him 400 miles north to Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital...
...disbelief turned rapidly into a blur of activity. Pentagon aides rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want a repeat of the Ramzi Yousef debacle, when the accused mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing managed to flee the U.S. just hours after that attack...
Believing that his knowledge of CPR and first-aid would allow him to contribute to the rescue effort, Kluttz headed for Logan International Airport...
...morning following the Oklahoma explosion, Kluttz went to Logan Airport and bought a ticket on United for the next flight to Oklahoma City. He was to become one of the volunteers flying in from all over the world to help the search effort...
...airport in Oklahoma City, Kluttz hailed an airport express van. The shuttle driver drove him to the devastated building. Despite the security checks around the area and the fact that prior clearance, Kluttz was allowed to go directly to the Red Cross area...