Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President flew back to Washington, a high-level task force assembled at the State Department to ponder appropriate U.S. countermeasures. There was general agreement that the Administration should not do yet another about-face on the grain deal, since Reagan had criticized President Jimmy Carter's embargo and a second one would virtually eliminate the U.S. as a credible trading partner. The various courses of action considered ranged from U.S. support of expected retaliation by airline pilots all the way up to a postponement of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks, scheduled to resume this week in Geneva...
...Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 902 with 110 passengers and crew on board was cruising routinely from Paris to Seoul when navigational equipment apparently malfunctioned. Disoriented, the pilot veered 180° off course and penetrated Soviet airspace near Murmansk, above the Arctic Circle. For two hours the jet flew serenely over sensitive strategic submarine and bomber bases before Sukhoi-15 interceptors finally scrambled to intercept...
...contrast, the downing of two civilian Air Rhodesia planes by rebel troops during the guerrilla war that brought black rule to Zimbabwe was nothing but coldblooded. In 1978, foot soldiers of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Army fired Soviet SA-7 missiles at a Viscount airliner as it flew from Salisbury to Kariba, 175 miles to the northwest. Of the 56 aboard, 38 died in the crash. Then, after injured passengers crawled from the wreckage, the guerrillas arrived and again opened fire, killing ten of the survivors...
When news of the casualties came in, Vice President George Bush flew to Washington from his summer home in Maine and convened a meeting of the "special situation group"-the first of three held on the Lebanon crisis. The group reached general agreement that the U.S. Marine contingent would remain in place, at least for the time being, a view that was quickly approved by Reagan in California. Though realistic about its chances, Washington instructed Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, Robert McFarlane, to pressure President Amin Gemayel to continue trying to gather Lebanon's factions...
...Park, whose ornate bell towers rise like baroque sand castles out of the Texas plain, has been updating and supplementing drawings made in 1935 and 1936. "The purpose of the original survey was to capture the missions as they existed then," says Ken Anderson, HABS' principal architect, who flew from Washington, D.C., to work with Schlinke, Texas Tech Professor John White and William Peoples, a recent graduate of California Polytechnic. "This follow-up survey teaches us how rapidly erosion takes place and how soon something will have to be done...