Word: airports
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...minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily on TV for their...
When Marlene Dietrich arrived at London's Heathrow Airport one day a few years ago, she was in no mood to meet the group of photographers waiting for her. "Go away!" she shouted. "You are all morons. Why don't you get a proper job?" And they laughed and made her picture and loved her, as they have through the years, for she always gladdened their hearts -- and their eyes. They didn't mind what she said, because they knew they had a proper...
Panamanian rebel commander Moises Giroldi apparently ignored the even greater threat from Battalion 2000, based near the airport 15 miles east of Noriega's headquarters. This group of 800 officers and men has 90% of the P.D.F.'s firepower -- including 120-mm mortars, rocket launchers and armored personnel carriers -- and many of its troops are Cuban-trained. Ultimately, it was units from Battalion 2000 that retook the headquarters and freed Noriega...
...through a combination of cautious diplomacy on Gorbachev's part and careful crowd control by his hosts, the two-day visit went off without any major embarrassments. Arriving at Schonefeld Airport on Friday, the Soviet leader was greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Gorbi! Gorbi!" but the reception remained calm. About 3,000 people gathered the next day in Alexanderplatz to demand government reform, the biggest such demonstration in East Berlin since 1953, but again the police managed to control the crowd. Officials were less successful in keeping the lid on demonstrations outside the capital: in Dresden and Leipzig violent clashes...
...press coverage of two recent plane crashes provides a striking example of this phenomenon. Each accident had larger implications for the general safety of air travel. After a USAir jet plunged into New York City's East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...