Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economics Boss Hamengku Buwono IX, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, flew to Tokyo to make his bid for $100 million in emergency loans and credit, announced that the new regime had decided to rejoin such Sukarno-hated institutions as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund...
When the approval finally came, Kraar flew north 500 miles from Bangkok to the royal mountain villa. He was accompanied by a man who doesn't get to do much reporting-Time Inc. President James Linen, who was traveling in Thailand at the time. The monarch talked candidly for an hour on subjects that ranged from Communist subversion to modern painting. The talks went so well that the TIME men were asked to stay on for luncheon and more conversation...
Corps Commander Cao flew off to 1st Division headquarters near Hue in an effort to woo rebellious officers back to Ky's side, but no sooner had he ended his speech and climbed aboard the U.S. helicopter that was to return him to Danang than a South Vietnamese lieutenant took a shot at the chopper. An American machine gunner cut him down with a single burst...
...whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser he wooed with $2 billion worth of arms, agricultural aid and the Aswan High Dam. But with Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Russian initiatives once again waned in the Middle East. Last week Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin set out to correct that. He flew to Cairo for an eight-day, fanfare-ridden series of talks and tours in the land of the pyramids...
...decided the sacrifice was more than worthwhile. As a World War II victim of leg injuries from machine-gun fire, he had to get a fitness clearance. When Orthopedist Hugh L. Sulfridge Jr. checked Caumartin and pronounced him fit, Sulfridge himself caught the volunteer spirit. Both doctors flew out last month, Caumartin to read X rays and teach radiological techniques in Saigon, while Sulfridge went to the 70-year-old complex of decaying buildings that makes up the hospital at Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of the capital, in the steaming Mekong Delta...