Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Lance inflated his net worth by up to $1,409,779 in applying for loans from his own banks and others. The investigators also found that Lance used an NBG airplane, which cost $223,180 to operate from 1975 through 1977, during which Lance and other bank officials flew on 1,373 trips. But the bank could only produce records indicating that 259 of the trips were for business purposes...
...Soviet air defenses on the Kola Peninsula, the site of a large naval base (at Murmansk) and important missile installations. The high-flying (35,000 ft.) Korean 707 should have been spotted by Soviet radar when it was as many as 500 miles offshore. Yet it not only flew unchallenged through the 200-mile-wide air defense zone that the Soviets maintain off their shores, but charged along for at least 18 minutes over Russian territory before fighters intercepted...
Lewis turned to an old friend, William Rogers, 50, a lawyer and former State Department official who had served as President Kennedy's expert on Latin America. Rogers flew to Panama, where Torrijos told him that Panama would not accept the DeConcini reservation, and some new "statement of political and legal dignity" must be added to the second treaty. Rogers offered himself as an intermediary...
...jetliner was chartered, flew to Murmansk and brought out to Helsinki the bodies of the two passengers who died in the incident and the surviving crew and passengers, except for the ill-fated flight's captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based...
...President's Inauguration, a count partly substantiated by records in Washington. He twice attended soirees at the White House: one in March 1977 to honor British Prime Minister James Callaghan, and another in September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard Air Force One as a "personal friend to the President." Gregory made his twin-engined Beechcraft available to ferry Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, to a wedding in Fayetteville, N.C., in December. Trinkets from such encounters line Gregory...