Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last October the Government ordered a close inspection of the upper-fuselage skin on all vintage Boeing 737s because the metal had begun to crack on several of these aircraft. Although such a connection is speculative at the moment, Aloha Airlines has temporarily grounded its other three high-time 737s...
Bringing the unique series of shows to fruition was a prodigious task. "Our naivete helped," says Nightline Senior Producer Betsy West. "Old hands might have said, 'Don't even try.' " Plans were begun last fall, but the assassination three weeks ago of P.L.O. Leader Khalil al-Wazir increased tensions and made it more difficult to line up guests. Among those who refused to appear: P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
...closing fast. According to the latest figures of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 1986 Tokyo gave $5.6 billion, vs. Washington's $9.6 billion. This year Japan has authorized more foreign aid than the U.S. ($10 billion vs. $9.2 billion). Japan has also begun to recycle some of its growing financial reserves throughout the developing world: at the 1987 Venice summit of industrialized nations, Tokyo pledged $20 billion in loans and other plans for helping developing nations plagued by debt. Says Masamichi Hanabusa, director- general of the Economic Cooperation Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
...McNamara was finishing up a two-year trek through South America, she stumbled into a nightmare involving Peruvian officials and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the shadowy, Maoist-oriented guerrilla group committed to overthrowing the Lima government. Her terrifying sojourn ended two weeks ago, as abruptly as it had begun, but not before she had spent four months in a prison, where she lived alongside members of one of the world's most secretive rebel groups...
...trouble with the exhibition of the work of Donald Sultan, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum recently after a seven-month run in other American museums, is its date. It should have begun in 1997. Then there would be a larger oeuvre to assess, a longer career to discuss, and not just a bright reputation to inflect...