Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitterrand flew first to Atlanta to place a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. and meet with his widow. He charmed Mayor Andrew Young by claiming that when he read about the Deep South as a youth, Louis Armstrong's version of Georgia on My Mind kept running through his head...
...Photographer Eddie Adams, 50, was offered a chance to accompany Parade Magazine Reporter Tad Szulc, 57, to Cuba for an exclusive interview with President Fidel Castro, 57, he eagerly accepted. But "el jefe máximo" kept the pair waiting in their hotel for two weeks, and they finally flew back to New York, though not before Adams had angrily given every Cuban official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing Adams...
From the halls of the U.S. Congress to the mountainous reaches of El Salvador, the battle over the future of Central America became a war of scattered skirmishes last week. In Washington, partisan attacks flew back and forth, centering on the anti-Communist policies of the Reagan Administration. There also were harsh diplomatic exchanges between the nuclear superpowers, each accusing the other of complicity in the region's simmering conflicts, while both Soviet and American warships showed the flag in the Caribbean. In El Salvador, government soldiers and Marxist-led guerrillas played a deadly game of hide-and-seek...
After months of groundwork, negotiations came to a head last November. Following a meeting with Machel in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, Crocker's deputy, Frank Wisner, flew to South Africa with a message for Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha: the time was ripe for bilateral talks with Mozambique. The discussions set in motion the exchange that led to last week's formal accord...
...time last week Pittsburgh looked like the gambling capital of the world. A trio of high rollers, each backed by $6 billion or more, flew into the city. Under the rules of the game they were playing, each had to assemble his best hand by 9 o'clock Monday morning, then make one bet without seeing the chips of the others. The jackpot: Gulf Oil, the fifth-largest U.S. petroleum company and one of the ten biggest corporations. After seven hours the winner was announced: Standard Oil of California, best known for its Chevron gas stations, whose cash...