Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy in 1968, was about to leave on vacation when he heard about the Hilton incident. He rushed to the White House and then to the hospital, and on Friday got an exclusive interview with Nancy Reagan. New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, formerly TIME'S medicine writer, flew to the capital to cover the medical aspects of the story...
Antiabortionists in New Zealand succeeded in passing legislation in 1977 that required cumbersome review procedures by medical consultants to determine the extent of physical or mental danger to the mother. Briefly, the abortion rate dropped, as 3,000 women a year flew to Australia for legal abortions. Recently, New Zealand women have learned to present the required symptoms (mainly psychiatric) for abortion, and the rate has returned to about 4,000 a year. Marilyn Waring, 28, the only woman M.P. of the ruling National Party, insists: "A woman will find a way, sometimes at the expense of her own life...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, had met with Lieutenant General P.W. Van der Westhuizen, chief of South Africa's military intelligence. South African officers are barred from visiting the U.S. on official business, but after Reagan's television statement, the general and four aides flew to Washington anyway...
...could it happen? Rounding up the young men had been simple. Indeed, before their arrests some of them gave a group interview to a Honolulu reporter, in which they admitted they "climbed her." Six months later, Anna flew back to Hawaii to testify at a juvenile court hearing on the cases of the five youngest attackers. The boys were judged guilty by the Hawaiian family court and dispatched to a juvenile prison...
Early this year, before the trial of the older attackers began, defense lawyers thought the case so hopeless that they attempted (and failed) to plea-bargain with Prosecutor Robert Rodrigues. Once again, Anna flew back to Hawaii from Finland. In direct testimony she described the assaults. But the defense lawyers declined to cross-examine Anna. In so doing they forfeited a chance to challenge her story, but they also cut off the prosecutor's only opportunity to draw further detailed testimony from her in rebuttal...