Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When FBI agents and police burst into three houses in New York City last week they got more, much more, than they anticipated. After 17 months of stalking an international drug ring in the U.S., Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong, they were expecting to turn up about 50 lbs. of heroin in the raid. But hidden inside a stack of small rubber tires was an astonishing 820 lbs. of the narcotic, with an estimated street value of nearly $1 billion. It was the biggest heroin bust ever in the U.S. Some 40 people, including the ring's suspected kingpin...
...both starboard engines were disabled, probably by debris, veteran pilot David Cronin, 58, skillfully reduced altitude and nudged his crippled craft along the 100-mile journey back to Honolulu International Airport. As he touched down at 2:33 a.m., one hour after the plane had taken off, everybody aboard burst into applause and then slid swiftly down the escape chutes. Said passenger Bruce Lampert: "I can tell you that was a long flight back." Afterward, a dozen people were hospitalized...
...watched the finals. Japan's Daichi Suzuki, the Soviet Union's Igor Polanski and Berkoff. Suzuki and Polasnki burst off the blocks. Berkoff started out slow, but his underwater motions kept him close...
...after dawn. As local Communist Party officials arranged a banquet of fruits and nuts on a long white-clothed table, a small troupe of Uzbek dancers rehearsed their steps. Seven Young Pioneers, their trademark red scarves flapping in the breeze, clutched flowers. Just after 11:30, a military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When the lead vehicle clattered past the last checkpoint and onto Soviet soil, the six young soldiers on board broke into ear-to-ear grins...
...crashed Oct. 11, 1988, at Wurtsmith Air Base near Oscoda, Mich. That plane, also based at Sawyer, crashed and burst into flames on landing, killing six and injuring...