Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government of Taiwan was acutely embarrassed earlier this month when a pilot from the island's privately owned commercial airline diverted his Boeing 747 cargo jet to Canton and announced that he was defecting to mainland China. To recover the plane, Taiwan's government reluctantly authorized representatives of China Airlines to negotiate directly with the mainland's Civil Aviation Administration of China. Last week, after four days of talks in Hong Kong, the two organizations agreed on terms for the return to Taiwan of the $62 million aircraft, as well as the copilot and flight engineer, who were unwilling passengers...
...keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle to the death next to the Bomb in the last minutes before the blast. Smith is also capable of subtler effects. His spare prose shapes images that contain haunting affinities: wild horses and Army jeeps; rattlesnakes and coils of electrical cable; the lustrous surfaces of ceremonial...
...Ronald Reagan calls the "mad dog of the Middle East." As Americans, transfixed at their television sets, listened to the muffled rattle and thump of the assault filtering over the phone lines of network correspondents holed up in a Tripoli hotel, the U.S. attackers delivered their lethal cargo of laser-directed bombs. As quickly as they had come, the warplanes wheeled out to sea, vanishing back into the gloom, all safe...
...goods were taken from the palace by boat to the Army and Navy Club and then to the (U.S.) embassy, where they were ransacked." He suggested that the same officials were responsible for loading the bounty, which was later seized by U.S. Customs Service officials in Hawaii, onto American cargo planes. Philippine authorities charged last ; week that Marcos had fled with 36 suitcases and crates filled with more than $100 million in cash, diamonds and gold...
...some 50 miles from his home port and will be rescued in two or three hours, but still worries, "It seemed an extraordinarily long time to be alone at sea." Ten days later, having swallowed seawater and a few pickings of raw fish, he lands with a cargo of extraordinary impressions...