Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, a strict Muslim fundamentalist, flew to New York City to present to the United Nations Security Council Iran's complaint that Iraq had started the war by attacking Iranian territory. Shortly before Raja'i's arrival, President Carter for the first time referred publicly and disapprovingly to "aggression." Since Iraq is indisputably the aggressor in this conflict, Carter's statement touched off speculation that the U.S. was tilting slightly toward Tehran, perhaps in anticipation of the release of the 52 American hostages. Out of that conjecture grew a new flurry of rumors that...
...just as the Big Green flew by Harvard, the partridges flew by McCurdy and both team and coach came home empty-handed...
...assistance from nonbelligerent friends in the area who feel threatened by the conflict." The U.S. military contingent supporting four electronic surveillance planes (AWACS) loaned to Saudi Arabia had grown to more than 800 men last week. Additional troops and equipment were expected soon. A U.S. military assistance team flew to Riyadh for talks with Saudi officials. Said a State Department specialist: "We are stepping up our dialogue with the Saudis on what they need for their air defense...
...diplomat called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo and claimed for Moscow whatever treasure was found; his stand was backed by Kyushu University's Hideo Takabayashi, a professor of international law. Abandoned warships, said Takabayashi, unlike abandoned merchantmen, continue to belong to the governments whose flag they once flew. Not so, said the Japanese Foreign Office. The find, it held, belonged to neither the Soviet nor the Japanese government...
...Triple Crown-setting a track record in one of them. In the weeks before the Messenger Stakes, he kept in trim by running a time trial alongside Thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky. Head held high in the distinctive pacer's posture, his legs whipping a high-speed dressage. Niatross flew around the track in 1:49 1/5, smashing the world record for a pacing mile by 2 4/5 sec.-even bigger than the margin by which Secretariat shattered the Belmont Stakes record in his 31-length victory in the final leg of the 1973 Thoroughbred Triple Crown...