Word: djibouti
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...cutting its weekly service to the region by more than half. Pan Am has rerouted its flights from Frankfurt to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia so that they fly farther from Iraqi airspace. Air France has canceled a stopover in the gulf emirate of Bahrain in favor of one in Djibouti, in northeastern Africa...
...northern Ethiopia, William Ahmed was arrested in 1984 on suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
...Italy, West Germany, Brazil) or those at table tennis rooting for Chinese Superstar Jiang Jialiang? Veteran Captain Karch Kiraly will lead the U.S. into what could be these Games' final confrontation with the U.S.S.R.: on the volleyball court. While most of the U.S. sleeps, Kenya's Douglas Wakiihuri and Djibouti's Ahmed Salah should be leading home a wide-open marathon field...
...thought we were going to die." After 24 hours, they swam a quarter mile through a sea of oil to the Wathara IV, only to discover that Cameron and the ship's dinghy were missing. Two days later, they heard over the BBC that Cameron was safe in Djibouti...
...escape. "Outside, it was a scene from Apocalypse Now," recalled McSeveney. During a lull in the firing, they started the engine and slowly found their way to open sea through the darkness, past a capsized freighter and a patrol boat loaded with armed men. When they finally sighted Djibouti 30 hours later, they both cried, "Thank you, Lord!" at the top of their voices...