Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sped toward Chicago, events were unfolding that would give Reagan a clean one. But it is almost a given in the history of presidential leadership that nothing happens when it should. This caravan was a celebration for tax reform, with bands and balloons and healthy Americans cheering. The President had to wear two faces that day, one for his happy crowds in public, another for his private moments as terrorism avenger. At every critical point during the journey Reagan would turn from blaring politics to a whispered question: "Have we found them...
...clear day. Light winds. Nothing should have gone wrong. Yet barely had the single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan lifted off in Jenkinsburg, Ga., last week when it stalled and plunged into a pasture from 1,000 ft., too suddenly for the pilot or any of the 16 experienced skydivers to escape. All were killed, their bodies crushed against one another in the front of the plane...
Officials in Tunisia were outraged. Some 23,000 of the country's workers were returning home from neighboring Libya bearing tales of forced detention, beatings and the seizure of possessions, including their passports. The unhappy caravan was the first wave of some 90,000 Tunisian workers in Libya affected by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's decision earlier this month to expel foreign workers. Libya's economy has been hard hit by reduced earnings resulting from the oil glut...
...hostages had arrived safely in West Germany, the Israeli Cabinet on Monday voted to begin another release of prisoners taken out of Lebanon by withdrawing occupation forces. Two days later, some 300 Lebanese dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone in southern Lebanon. There, Israeli soldiers untied white plastic ropes from the prisoners' wrists and turned them over one by one to Red Cross officials...
...Beirut time, 10:45 a.m. in Washington, the freedom ride finally began along the mountainous 75-mile road to Damascus. Accompanying the hostages were armed escorts from Amal and from another Lebanese faction, the Druze. Also in the caravan were representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian army officers and security agents, which helped emphasize the pivotal role Syria had played in arranging the release of the long-waylaid passengers and crew of TWA Flight...