Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bids come in too high again, then that's what the project is going to cost," said Gefter, adding that the urgent need for repairs to Briggs might make a year's delay structurally dangerous...
Amal leaders seemed to be satisfied. One militiaman quoted Syrian officials as saying that the U.S. had given an assurance not to retaliate. As Berri explained to reporters on Sunday, "We were ready to take them to Damascus yesterday, but after Reagan threatened us we had to delay their departure. I had to talk to the hijackers and to my people...
...Sunday, however, McFarlane insisted that Reagan's statement was not responsible for the delay. Rather, he said, it was used as "a pretext" by those Shi'ites who had doubts about the arrangement. When Reagan was informed that the plan seemed to be coming unraveled, he told his aides: "Well, these things happen, but we're right in our policies and it will work out." Iran, officials suggested, probably contributed to the weekend delay. Syria, however, helped keep the diplomatic dialogue on track. It was through Syria that the U.S. learned that some declaration about no retaliation was desired. When...
Everywhere, nerves were on edge. At London's Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, armored vehicles and troops carrying automatic weapons stood guard during the stopover of an Air India flight. In Toronto four bomb threats, all crank calls as it turned out, compelled authorities to delay the loading of three flights and to pull a fourth off the runway. In Rome an Austrian Airlines DC-9 en route to Vienna was recalled following an anonymous bomb threat. At Boston's Logan International Airport yet another call about a bomb forced hundreds to vacate a terminal while police...
...From San Francisco to Cairo, airports tightened security arrangements, stepping up passenger, baggage and cargo inspections. After an initial flurry of reservation cancellations, these precautions seemed to calm travelers' fears. Still, the spate of bomb threats in the U.S. and overseas, all false alarms, forced several airliners to delay takeoffs or make emergency landings. Passengers did not complain. "I'd rather spend two hours in line here than end up in the Atlantic Ocean," said David Murley of Toronto as he headed for London...