Word: airport
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...ratio before the Iraqis rolled in). The invasion has made the government more loudly determined than ever to reach that goal -- but getting there will probably prove impossible. After a whirlwind shopping spree in the Far East, a Sabah woman turned up at the airport last week with 40 servants in tow. "I have replaced my Arabs with Asians," she said proudly. She will not be the last...
...Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
...kill Saddam during six weeks of unrelenting aerial bombardment. The targeting documents, including some dated Jan. 14, 1991, two days before the bombing began, list the "Baghdad Presidential Palace," the "Taji Presidential Retreat," a few miles north of Baghdad, and the "Abu Ghurayb Presidential Grounds," near the Baghdad airport. At least two of these sites were struck by U.S. aircraft -- but through a combination of luck, ingenuity and frequent changes of residence, Saddam managed to emerge unscathed...
Hong Kong's proposed new $16 billion airport is more than a spectacular engineering project. Unveiled in 1989, the plan soon turned into a test of wills between London and Beijing. Since Britain had not previously consulted China, Beijing refused to give its approval, which was necessary for financing, and the project stalled. At issue: who runs Hong Kong before 1997, when China takes over...
Last week the answer became clearer. Britain and China signed an agreement in which Beijing approved the project, but in turn London must consult Beijing on all major aspects of the airport's development. Beyond that, China gained a voice in running Hong Kong...