Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pomp and circumstance was the order of the day at Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport as Ethiopia's Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...
...Secretary of State, who appeared surprised at Gorbachev's proposals as he flew out of Moscow, sought to downplay them as much as he could. He repeated that the U.S. saw no point in SNF negotiations until the imbalance between Soviet and U.S. short-range nuclear weapons is reduced by much more than 500, and he claimed that the U.S. has long been urging the Kremlin to make some unilateral cuts. On conventional forces, too, Washington asserted that Moscow was replying to American proposals...
...glasnost in government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze's native republic of Georgia claimed the lives of 20 people last month, the Foreign Minister canceled a visit to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi. He has called the peacekeeping mission "my toughest challenge" so far. The result: a purge of the party and government leadership...
Walker, who lives in northern California, flew to Boston to speak at the Boston Globe's book and author luncheon later this week...
...Harvard responded. French descended to goal with five minutes left, and Joslin flew down off the draw to create sparks with her bounce-shot...