Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What can you do with $20? You can spend a night out on the town in Boston, take someone to a Red Sox game, ride a cab to the airport...or contribute to Harvard's ongoing support of discrimination...
...failed -- to disrupt the process of change. They had launched a campaign of small bombings against railways, power lines and A.N.C. offices in the conservative farm region west of Johannesburg. Then last week they detonated powerful car bombs in downtown Johannesburg, in neighboring Germiston and at the international airport, killing a total of 21 people and injuring more than 150. By the end of the week the police had rounded up 34 suspects, all members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...Nixon goes to China" is almost a stock phrase in the political culture. It's easy to lose sight of just how important the trip was, both for the course of world affairs and in the American mind. I remember the fascination as the cameras panned across the airport in Peking (as it then was), and Americans peered into a land few of them had seen in a quarter century...
...bloodshed began after Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, died when their plane crashed at Kigali airport almost two weeks ago. A military team from Belgium, the former colonial power in Rwanda, has concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
...then there are the delays. Glassy-eyed passengers can spend days huddled in dimly lit waiting rooms called, with spectacular aptness, "accumulators." Last summer, after enduring four stuporous days stranded in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, 350 passengers stormed the runway in an attempt to force a plane to take them home. Riot police were called in, and three people were injured...