Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raid was carried out by two dozen members of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, which reports only to chief of military intelligence Amnon Shachak. As Israeli jets flew overhead to drown out the noise, a darkened CH-53 helicopter landed after midnight on the outskirts of Jibchit. Lightly armed with silencer-equipped Uzis, pistols and a few small explosives, the commandos crept toward Obeid's house in the center of the village. One team guarded the neighborhood while another raided the house and abducted Obeid and two men who worked as bodyguards. Another man was killed by the Israelis when...
...also resorted to kidnaping of a sort, most famously during the 1985 midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by fighter planes. In September 1987 FBI agents lured suspected terrorist Fawaz Younis into international waters off Cyprus, arrested him aboard a U.S. vessel and flew him to Andrews Air Force Base for eventual trial and imprisonment. For the most part, however, the U.S. has adopted a waiting posture, which critics charge has degenerated into a prescription for inaction...
Helicopters flew in rescue workers and railroad handcars trundled out casualties. Flooding closed roads...
...This was all in a day's work as far as I'm concerned," said Smith, 47, a former Navy pilot. Smith flew for Eastern Airlines for 19 years before developer Donald Trump inaugurated the Trump Shuttle service on June 8 after buying the planes and landing rights from Eastern for $365 million...
...Trump flew into Boston for the afternoon news conference...