Word: flew
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...soon as Townley's identity became known, U.S. District Attorney Eugene Propper flew to Santiago to negotiate his expulsion from Chile. "I am a supporter of the junta above everything else, and I have full confidence in Chilean justice," Townley protested. "What the U.S. is trying to do through me is carry out a political attack on the government of Chile." But while Townley's lawyers were still challenging the U.S. request, Chilean police hustled the American onto a northward-bound plane and told the FBI to take him away. The FBI agents had to depart in such...
...children and parents of political prisoners of conscience who need support," says Natalya. To help draw attention to his plight, the Solzhenitsyns set up a Ginzburg Defense Committee in the U.S., composed of artists, journalists and politicians. Last week Natalya left the secluded Solzhenitsyn estate near Cavendish, Vt., and flew to London to launch the committee abroad. Said she: "The case of Alexander Ginzburg should draw the attention of all people, irrespective of their political views...
...demonstrators also displayed signs at the Cadillac agency located at the intersection and hired an airplane to fly over Boston carrying a banner reading "Drive Politely--A Little Courtesy Won't Kill You." The plane flew over Harvard and Fenway Park during the afternoon...
Before the Americans left Israel, they visited a hillside kibbutz near Jerusalem to hear Opposition Leader Shimon Peres, and talked with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan over dinner at the Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...midweek Israel's Defense Minister Ezer Weizman flew to Cairo for the fifth time since last November. This was the first high-level meeting between Israeli and Egyptian officials in nearly two months, and for that reason alone was interpreted by some observers as a new, tentative step toward serious negotiations. After two rounds of talks, and three hours of discussion between Sadat and Weizman, the Egyptian government announced that the Israelis had offered no new proposals and that there would be no more formal meetings of the political or military committees until Jerusalem had changed its position, notably...