Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secret Service would surely have had a fit if President Clinton had attempted to address the 35,000 voters assembled in a field just off the Dayton International Airport last week. It's not that the crowd was especially dangerous, just that everyone carried at least one gun, a whole lot of shells and often several grudges against Clinton's attempts to run the country. Of course, it's unlikely that the Grand American Trapshoot Tournament would invite Clinton in the first place. "We need someone like George Patton for President. That'll cut crime," said Bill Dirr...
...year later. He set off three bombs in the city and helped the Japanese Red Army plan the takeover of the French embassy in the Hague, in which 11 hostages were seized. After he took an unsuccessful shot with a bazooka at an El Al airliner parked at Orly Airport in January 1975, police rounded up Michel Moukharbel, Carlos' Lebanese adjutant. Moukharbel then led three unarmed policemen to a party where Carlos sat strumming a guitar. After chatting briefly, Carlos excused himself to go to the bathroom. He returned with a gun, killed Moukharbel and two of the police, wounding...
...stopped at a Ben & Jerry's, picked up some ice cream -- or yogurt -- and brought it to her condo, where it was allegedly found around midnight, still frozen. If so, then the defense might try to argue that Nicole and Goldman were still alive when O.J. left for the airport at around 11 that night...
...return to the base hospital in Pensacola, Florida. Wellstone and Vento intervened, and she went to a VA hospital near her parents' home in Minnesota. But her travails weren't at an end. Because her CO refused routine authorization to take an Air Force shuttle back to the Denver airport, she again traveled unassisted on two buses. Still suffering from that, she had another operation on July...
Driving from Murtala Muhammed Airport into downtown Lagos normally requires at least two hours. Last week it took barely 30 minutes: what traffic there was in the largest metropolis of one of the world's major oil producers bunched up at the few gas stations that still had fuel. Around those that had none, lines of abandoned vehicles fanned out in all directions. The effect was eerie, as if a neutron bomb had been dropped in the middle of the most populous country in Africa...