Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration seemed embarrassed at having provided U.S. cargo planes for Marcos' cash-and-carry exit. "Looking back, it was a stupid thing," said a Justice Department official. "But everything moved so fast." Indeed, in the confusion at Clark Air Base, north of Manila, where Marcos stopped before traveling to Guam and then to Hawaii, U.S. military personnel loaded the President's possessions after only a cursory inspection. Marcos claimed last week that he had originally intended to fly from Clark to his home province of Ilocos Norte. Only when the Aquino government refused to let him stay in the Philippines...
...quick way is to go Kirkland street-Parkway-Interstate 93-Interstate 95 until you see the Freeport exit...
Since he took over after Tramiel's exit, Smith has been scrambling in vain to bring out a successful follow-up to the Commodore 64. One candidate that flopped was the Plus-4. Unveiled in the summer of 1984, it was more powerful and versatile than the Commodore 64, but it did not run the same programs as its predecessor. Owners of the 64 who might have upgraded to the Plus-4 were reluctant to do so because they would have had to buy entirely new software libraries...
There is one sign of a thaw. Last month Jewish leaders were notified that Eliyahu Essas, the leader of the Jewish religion and culture movement in the Soviet Union, would be allowed to leave the country. Essas, 42, a mathematician, has been waiting for an exit visa for twelve years. Some Jewish leaders are optimistic about an airlift. Says one source close to the negotiations: "The Soviets haven't said when or how many, but they've indicated they'll do it." For Soviet Jews, this could be the first crack in what might be an opening door...
...trip marked a victory for the Sakharovs. Ever since Bonner had been forced to join her husband in exile in the city of Gorky (pop. 1.4 million) in May 1984, he had waged a campaign of letter writing and hunger strikes to secure an exit visa for Bonner, who suffers from glaucoma and heart trouble, so that she might receive medical treatment in the West. Before she left for Italy, where she consulted her ophthalmologist, then met briefly with Premier Bettino Craxi and Pope John Paul II prior to leaving for heart treatment in the U.S., Bonner explained that...