Word: benghazi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the lines, Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn reached Cairo after an 800-mile, cross-desert taxi ride from Benghazi and was one of 14 newsmen allowed to move up to the Sinai front. "After traveling about 25 miles northward along the front," he reports, "our convoy came to a halt when an artillery shell exploded 300 yds. away. Then an Israeli Skyhawk streaked past. Later newsmen saw smoke rising from what they thought was a bomb hit. But the unit commander said it was the plane, which had been shot down." Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, usually based...
Rommel's Route. By the war's second week, more than 500 reporters and TV technicians from 30 nations had assembled in Israel. Another 400 managed to get into Egypt. Most of them followed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's land route from Benghazi in Libya, arriving in Cairo bone-weary and -dry after an 800-mile drive by taxicab across the desert (fare: $400). Damascus and Amman played reluctant hosts to smaller press contingents...
censure, although this one combined high comedy with tragic potential. A modified 707 belonging to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines was 87 minutes out of Benghazi on its way to Beirut when a thin, popeyed, bushy-haired man in a green striped suit whipped a brace of pistols out of his belt, charged into the pilot's cabin and told Captain Adel Kawas: "I want to go to Israel...
...cold sweat," he says. Konuma received permission to refuel at Damascus. Just after the jet took off again two hours later, a terse message came over the radio from a Palestinian organization in Amsterdam: "You are to be released." Hearing that, the terrorists told the captain to land at Benghazi...
...March 27, a conference of Islamic foreign ministers in Benghazi, Libya, appealed to India for the immediate release of the prisoners...