Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From San Jose, Reagan flew to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He never left the airport there. He and President Roberto Suazo Cordova spoke together in a conference room, walked to a hangar and read boilerplate speeches. Suazo Cordova, who presides over Central America's poorest country, wants $100 million in U.S. aid to retire 75% of the Honduran budget deficit. Honduras has a strong claim on American largesse: it has lately been a staging area for U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista forces. Reagan met Guatemala's Rios Montt (who had flown to Honduras earlier) for a brief talk. Then...
...finally raided his house, finding NATO documents and spying paraphernalia, including a high-speed code receiver. But after questioning, Hambleton was released on the grounds that his spying did not directly affect Canadian security. That decision led Hambleton mistakenly to believe he was immune from prosecution when he nonchalantly flew to England for a visit. But in his defense last week, Hambleton unveiled yet another twist to his story. Espionage charges against him were unwarranted, his lawyer claimed, because he had in fact been a double agent working for NATO all along...
...accusations flew, only the French openly blamed GATT and the free trading systems for the world's current economic ills. With his nation stirring controversy in Europe over an ingenious new barrier against Japanese video recorders (see box), acerbic French Trade Minister Michel Jobert lambasted U.S. free trade principles as a "formula of dogmatic liberalism" yielding "subtle" forms of protectionism, and argued that in any case high interest rates and currency fluctuations, not trade barriers, caused joblessness...
...Harvard women's basketball team flew to Philadelphia to take on the Penn Quakers Saturday night, but the cagers said yesterday they never rally got a chance to play Instead of playing basketball, the Crimson went through a series of two-minute waltzes around the officials, who called more than a foul a minute...
...Pershing II missile into the air. In its first test, the missile blew up. In the next two tests, it didn't leave the launch pad. Last week, to the inestimable pleasure--and relief--of the Army officials watching Pershing's latest test, the thing actually flew. Unfortunately, grumbled an Army spokesman later, the missile "failed to achieve the desired accuracy"--it missed its target...