Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick, it was carried by Defense Secretary Harold Brown-and quite a stick it was: an 18-ft. cruise missile that is capable, in Brown's words, of splitting the center line of a runway 800 miles from its launch site. Brown flew out to New Mexico's Tularosa Basin for a highly publicized demonstration of the U.S. Navy's sleek Tomahawk cruise missile. As big jack rabbits nibbled unconcernedly at the sagebrush in the blazing morning sun, a camouflage-painted, torpedo-shaped object whistled barely 100 ft. above the White Sands Missile Range at 500 m.p.h...
Immediately after the address, the President flew to Panama City to exchange the instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal treaties with General Torrijos. The city was tense and under tight security as Carter arrived. Sentiment against the treaties among anti-Torrijos Panamanians had been increased early in the week by the dramatic return from exile in Miami of former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, a fervid opponent of the pacts. Two nights before Carter's arrival, students who opposed the treaties had fought for several hours with treaty supporters at the University of Panama. Two people were killed...
...some time Rowland has been funneling money to Joshua Nkomo, co-leader of the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front.* Among other things, he footed a $65,000 hotel bill for Nkomo and his entourage at the unsuccessful Geneva peace talks of 1976. Last September, Rowland flew Ian Smith in a Lonrho Learjet to a clandestine meeting with Zambia's Kaunda, one of the five front-line black leaders supporting the Patriotic Front. In February, Smith asked Rowland to arrange another meeting between Kaunda and a senior white Rhodesian Cabinet minister. Smith's goal: to get Kaunda...
...long ago a Belgian businessman wanted the European marketing rights for a new U.S. machine tool. After several of his letters went unanswered, he flew out to see the manufacturer, who told him: "We don't export -it's too much trouble." Unlike the aggressive, go-anywhere Yankee traders of old, modern American businessmen have long had at their doorstep the richest market on earth and felt far less pressure than their foreign counterparts to seek exports. But that could be changing...
...Velasquez moved Alydar up on the outside and parked his big, handsome colt on Affirmed's right shoulder. Down the long backstretch the two colts ran stride for stride, coats glistening in the big move to the finish. The field was already left far behind. Affirmed and Alydar flew out of the final turn and into the home stretch, driving for the wire, joined in desperate struggle. With 3/16 of a mile to go, Alydar pushed in front by a nose, but Affirmed, running now on heart, reclaimed the lead with 20 yds. left. They thundered home, two great...