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DIED. LUTHER HOLCOMB, 91, minister who worked for racial integration in the 1950s and '60s and who 40 years ago last week met President John F. Kennedy at the airport in Dallas and later announced to a shocked crowd that the President had been shot; in Henderson County, Texas...
...travel to civil war--engulfed Liberia. Myers, who was a surgeon in Oklahoma, had grown frustrated with American medicine's commercialism. With his kids grown and some money saved, he volunteered with Medecins sans Frontieres, which placed him in Liberia. Seeing children with machine guns at the Monrovia airport, "I really thought I was flying into hell," he says. He worked hard, ignoring the mortar fire at sunrise and sunset as patients with serious gunshot wounds stumbled in. Whereas in the U.S. he would have taken care of 10 patients a day, here he was treating as many...
President Bush has come and gone, his two-and-a-half-hour Thanksgiving dinner by stealth at Baghdad's airport symbolizing both his personal commitment to the Iraq mission and the immense security difficulties plaguing that mission. In marked contrast to his May 1 victory speech aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln, President Bush went to Baghdad to buoy the spirits of an army still very much at war. November was the bloodiest month for U.S. forces since invading Iraq, with 83 American soldiers, and a further 35 troops from coalition allies, having been killed over 30 days...
...around 5:30 PM at Baghdad Airport. Defying the insurgents who launch regular missile attacks on aircraft flying in and out of Baghdad, Air Force One flew in under total cover of darkness, the shades drawn inside and with no headlights on, landing in one of the most dangerous cities on Earth. The plane roared over our heads as we stood waiting for an address in a huge hangar filled with 550 soldiers - a speech we had been told was to be by the U.S. administrator to Iraq, Paul Bremer. Bush's trip had been so tightly guarded a secret...
...Costa Rica trip generates enough interest, they might even need to charter an airplane from Logan Airport...