Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters insisted that Atlanta authorities had reneged on an agreement not to press charges of trespassing after the activists blocked access to an abortion clinic. Their sympathizers held new demonstrations, and more arrests followed. The Rev. Jerry Falwell flew to Atlanta to give a $10,000 check to Operation Rescue, the group that organized the protest. Falwell said he might return to get arrested; if he does, his identity should not be difficult to determine...
Forgive George Shultz if he is eager to get home. After the Secretary of State flew to La Paz last week, suspected drug lords detonated a bomb as his motorcade drove into the Bolivian capital. The dynamite blast missed Shultz's armored Cadillac but shattered the windows of several cars, including the one carrying his wife Helena. Unintimidated, Shultz delivered a speech that praised the government's new anticocaine measures...
...Italian newspapers, to be high commissioner in the fight against the Mafia. In the past two decades, Sica has directed investigations into some of Italy's toughest cases, including the ; attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II and the kidnaping-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Sica immediately flew off to Palermo, for a firsthand look at La Piovra, or the octopus, as the mob is known throughout Italy...
...Pakistani air force crash investigation team flew to the scene today in search of the plane's flight recorder. A similar U.S. team was also expected, but details of its visit were not disclosed...
...Hymers Jr., a Christian extremist in the Los Angeles area, staged a demonstration near the Beverly Hills home of MCA Chairman Wasserman, who is Jewish. An actor portraying Wasserman stepped repeatedly on the bloody back of an actor dressed as Jesus and carrying a heavy cross. An airplane meanwhile flew overhead trailing a banner that read, WASSERMAN FANS JEW-HATRED W/TEMPTATION, and a crowd chanted, "Bankrolled by Jewish money...