Word: c
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for the confusing signals from the control tower became clear once our plane touched down on the rain-drenched runway, littered with wind- blown bits of sagebrush. The narrow ribbon of tarmac at Zvartnots airfield looked like a crowded parking lot: an American military C-141, its tail marked with a large Stars and Stripes, an Algerian transport plane, a commercial Austrian airliner -- in all, about 15 foreign planes, not counting a regular fleet of Soviet Ilyushin 76s and Tupelev 154s. Hundreds of dark-clad figures milled about. The usual tight military control that exists at every Soviet airport...
Americans did not spare themselves. Washington sent eight planeloads of official aid, plus a U.S. Air Force C-141 carrying supplies that left from Italy. Private donors gave millions of dollars' worth of supplies and equipment that required more than twelve planes to ferry them to Armenia. Industrialist Armand Hammer donated $500,000, and Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca announced a fund drive. In Chicago, one of five major Armenian population centers around the U.S., the local community raised more than $800,000 and collected 20,000 lbs. of supplies, from blankets to medicine. The Armenian Relief Society raised more...
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Gerard C. Lelievre...
SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin). Charles Mackerras leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the aptly nicknamed "Great" C Major Symphony, on original instruments...
...Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, S. C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell...