Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crew is playing football in the set of the Oval Office...
...Doorm Crew (guitar solo...
Cause I work Dooorm Crew...
...iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with a cutaway of Edwardian strata: "Should normal Class Precedence prevail," the crew wondered, "or the rule of 'Women and children first'?" Last year the Titanic's wreckage was spotted on the Atlantic floor, and speculation began anew. Could the accident have been avoided? Why did so many lifeboats leave only half filled? One fact is certain: unlike the ship, the legend refuses...
...South African involvement in the crash. The accident occurred as Machel was returning from a Zambian summit meeting of so-called frontline black African states located near South Africa. Machel's official plane, a Soviet-made Tupolev 134-B, took off with 44 people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport in sight and descended. The Maputo airport...