Word: flew
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...effort to improve the atmosphere began Sunday, when Reagan flew to New York to play host that night at the annual American reception for delegates attending the U.N. General Assembly meeting, and to get a look at Gromyko five days before their White House talk. The Soviet Foreign Minister, showing a rare smile, was the ninth of more than 200 foreign dignitaries to file past the President at the head of the receiving line in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reporters timed their handshake at a long 23 seconds. Gromyko reminded Reagan that they had greeted each other...
...Arafat met with both Mubarak and Hussein; by July, he had sufficiently rebuilt his authority within the P.L.O. to call a Palestine National Council meeting for Sept. 25 in Algiers. Assad, alarmed that Arafat might use the occasion to diminish the Syrian leader's influence in the P.L.O., flew to Algiers last month to pressure Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid into canceling the P.L.O. get-together. Chadli agreed. Hussein was so dismayed by the Syrian President's heavyhanded interference that he decided to make the burgeoning Jordanian relationship with Egypt official. "Jordan was fed up with it all," said...
...began his hopscotch around the Arab capitals. But Murphy was a good choice to send on a side trip to Damascus: as U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 1974 to 1978, he developed a personal friendship with Assad. The two men talked for more than two hours before Murphy flew to Jerusalem, where he conferred with Peres for an hour. After seeing Mubarak in Cairo and lunching with Hussein in Amman, Murphy returned to Damascus on Friday. He met with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, Assad's chief trouble-shooter in Lebanon, then went to Beirut for another round...
While the majority of Harvard students were choosing their fall classes last week. Debbie Copaken '88 flew to New York on business--shooting her scene in "The Key Exchange", a Twentieth Century Fox movie to be released next March...
...Planes flew over the field periodically, and threatened to drown