Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the flight to Cairo aboard a chartered KLM DC-7, Chou stripped down to long underwear for a seven-hour sleep, wolfed hearty portions of Russian caviar before landing. Though Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile...
Squads of steel-helmeted combat troops guarded every polling place, and an air force DC-3 droned low over Caracas with a loudspeaker broadcasting guarantees of safety to the voters. It was Election Day in Venezuela-the day that Castroite F.A.L.N. terrorists had promised to fill with violence. They proved themselves ineffectual...
...light of morning showed only a few tangled pieces of metal, and an ugly, water-filled crater-6 ft. deep and 150 ft. wide. It was all that remained of Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a DC-8F jet with seven crew and 111 passengers aboard. At 6:30 p.m., the big red-and-silver jetliner lifted off Montreal's rainswept International Airport and banked left on course for Toronto 320 miles to the southwest. Four minutes later, townsfolk in Ste. Thérèse de Blainville heard a thunderous explosion as the plane slammed into a muddy...
...morning of Dec. 16, 1960, a United Airlines DC-8 and a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation collided in the icy air over New York City. It was history's most disastrous air accident: all 128 persons aboard the two planes were killed...
...reversal within the Administration? In the interval between Halaby's no and Bobby's yes, pretrial testimony had established that in guiding the United DC-8, FAA controllers at Idlewild departed from standard procedures. Those departures could hardly be said to have caused the collision, but they did cloud the question of the Government's responsibility...