Word: flew
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There had been nothing quite like it in American history: three former Presidents sharing the cabin of an Air Force jet as they flew to the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo. From talks with many of the dignitaries aboard the plane, TIME'S Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey put together the following account of their extraordinary mission of mourning...
...jumped from a Soviet Zil truck (price: $18,000) that was towing a North Korean antitank gun ($35,000). In the background American-made M60 battle tanks ($2 million each) rumbled on in the parade of Egyptian military might, while six French Mirage jet fighters ($2.5 million) flew overhead in tight formation...
...when President Jimmy Carter flew to Israel for a last effort to conciliate Egypt and Israel, Dayan--then foreign minister--suggested concessions on Israel's oil demands and on accelerated withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula...
During this thime he made East of Eden,for which Elia Kazan tapped Dean for the role of Cal. He flew out to California, made the film and returned to New York. By the time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...
...talks seemed stalled. The White House version of a compromise did not include any of the important written assurances -including a provision to buy back the planes if U.S.-Saudi relations soured -that Glenn said were necessary to win his support. Haig canceled meetings at the U.N. and flew down to Washington to take control. Yet the Secretary of State was reluctant to force the Saudis into new concessions or to include key Senators in the discussions. And the reports Haig received from the new U.S. ambassador in Riyadh, Richard Murphy, who rushed there on Monday, were pessimistic: the Saudis...