Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RECOVERING. THOMAS KEAN, 60, former G.O.P. Governor of New Jersey; from a balloon angioplasty to reopen a blocked artery; in Morristown, New Jersey. After Kean complained of chest pains, doctors sped the popular two termer into the operating room after determining he was dangerously close to a heart attack...
...will house straw-poll delegates to run the 15-minute Dole video on their in-house television systems. Explains Mike Murphy, Alexander's senior campaign consultant: "They've all told [Scott] Reed, 'Don't mess up again.' So everybody who walks into Scott's office says, 'How about free balloon rides at five grand? Sign here.'" After all, says Murphy, "If Dole loses, nobody is going to remember that Reed saved twenty grand." Reed put it this way: "We're an aggressive campaign...
Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24 helicopter gunships into the air to investigate. One of the choppers found the balloon, approached within 110 yards and attempted, without success, to establish radio contact. (Race organizers suspect that the pilots were unable to respond because their batteries had gone dead during the three-day flight...
...roughly the same time, the two other balloons over Belarus were confronted in similar fashion; the pilots quickly unfurled flags and were permitted to land. More than 25 minutes of circling Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' craft, however, brought no reply from inside the gondola, which was covered with thick canvas. After firing warning shots, the helicopter pilot became convinced that the craft was unmanned. Ordered to bring it down, the chopper fired about 20 bullets, enough to send the balloon and its gondola plunging to the forest below. Belarussian officials then kept silent for 24 hours while they sifted...
...absolutely indefensible." Lukashenko eventually ordered an investigation of the episode and by week's end had invited American officials to participate. That may eventually shed light on who is responsible. But what cannot be explained, or fathomed, is how anyone can shoot down something as harmless as a helium balloon. "This is so senseless," said Ruth Ludwig of the Balloon Federation of America. "It's the most benign thing people can do, floating around...