Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next two years, he remembers, some 15 to 20 prisoners were trucked every Wednesday to the Buenos Aires airport, put on a military plane, and then dropped, drugged but alive, from a height of about 13,000 ft. into the Atlantic Ocean...
Hundreds of rich suitors have wooed SKG. As Spielberg says, "It's like stacking hour over Kennedy Airport." There was, for example, the Middle Eastern businessman who wanted to fly to meet the moguls with a zillion-dollar check in hand, only to be told by his father that he was forbidden to travel because it was the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He may yet make the trip...
...alarming, in January a new group called the American Coalition of Life Activists released a "deadly dozen" list of abortion doctors. The Justice Department quickly dispatched U.S. marshals to protect the physicians, one of whom was tracked down on vacation in the Caribbean and met by marshals at the airport...
LAST SPRING 80 ANTIABORTION ACTIVISTS from around the country gathered in a hotel conference room near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. They had come to hammer out a common strategy, but by the time the two-day session ended, the group had suffered a permanent rift over the murder of Gunn 13 months earlier. Hill, a defrocked Presbyterian minister, had arrived in Chicago with a petition, signed by more than 30 activists, that called the shooting justified. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, which was once considered the radical wing of the antiabortion movement, spoke against the attack...
...called off an inquiry that had been scrutinizing a contract won by Pena's former investment firm shortly after he became Secretary; the Justice Department had also been looking into whether the city of Denver, during Pena's mayoralty, had misused federal funds intended for the city's new airport. Reno said there was no credible evidence that Pena had violated any federal laws...