Word: edt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sank in 18,000 feet of water 1040 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., at 4 a.m., EDT, Braman said, almost four hours after the towing ceased and the submarine was seen to be taking on water...
...last, of the recent charity "megathons." Holding hands in a human chain that, in theory at least, was supposed to stretch from coast to coast, an eclectic, Fellini-like crowd was expected to sing America the Beautiful (key lyric: "From sea to shining sea") at 3 p.m. EDT, as well as the trendier anthems We Are the World and Hands Across America...
...Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb had more elaborate things to say. More than 13 hours before Abbas' flight, at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Rabb had delivered a formal request to the Italian Justice Ministry for Abbas' provisional arrest on charges of complicity in hijacking and murder. According to the Italians, the evidence offered by the U.S. to support that request was inadequate. The formal reason Craxi later gave for denying the request was that the EgyptAir Boeing 737 in which Abbas had ridden along with the hijackers was Egyptian government territory. In addition he noted that Abbas carried an Iraqi...
...road," meaning on the way to Chicago. At about 11:50 a.m., as a presidential motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private room inside the bakery, Reagan agreed in principle to the move and provided "one or two elements of guidance on the concept...
...EDT, the Saratoga received the order to launch its Tomcats, four to undertake the interception and three as backup. Accompanied by two of the Hawkeye radar aircraft, the fighters loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...