Word: airport
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...year phase-down and continued U.S. access to Clark air base and Subic Bay naval base. In reply, Manila's negotiators called for the return of Clark by late next year, after which the Aquino government says it hopes to turn the facility into a civilian airport...
Airlines are understandably reluctant to discuss how the crisis has affected security arrangements. Typically, a Pan Am spokesman says only that security procedures at Pan Am have been "enhanced." At London's Heathrow Airport, travelers report that the beef-up can add 20 minutes to the already lengthy process of clearing security, while at New York City's Kennedy International Airport, extra police are on duty. At Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, 80 armed security police have been added to regular details, and an Interior Ministry spokesman says that "we are being vigilant toward all sensitive flights and passengers...
...Iraqi Airways jumbo jet carrying 426 evacuees--including 170 Americans--left Baghdad bound for London, said officials at Gatwick airport near London...
...first dinosaur fossil at the age of eight, and he set out in high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group of bored adults at the local airport, was an experiment to track the flight of a homemade rocket. It went up 15,000 ft. at a velocity of 800 m.p.h., and the memory of his gaping elders still gratifies Horner, who scraped through high school with a D average...
Mizel met with Pena in 1986 to urge an accelerated time-table for the airport construction. Pena, citing a study forecasting the creation of 20,000 new jobs, announced a plan to move up the airport's opening date more than a year, to 1992. When Pena entered a tight race for re-election in 1987, M.D.C. was a principal backer...