Word: belem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through cheering throngs in a vintage Rolls-Royce borrowed from an auto museum for the occasion. By the time the open car reached Lisbon's cathedral, it was inches deep in confetti and flower petals that the crowd had showered on John Paul. Later the Pope met in Belem Palace with Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes...
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...