Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story actually begins two days earlier. On Wednesday, March 20, I flew to Duluth--a city of about 100,000 in upstate Minn--to begin covering the Harvard men's hockey team's NCAA quarterfinal series with the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Bulldogs...
...difficult to give the flavor of a place or personality if I hadn't got it firsthand." A few weeks ago, Callahan set off for Seattle to catch Bird and the Boston Celtics on the road, and traveled with the team to Oakland and Los Angeles. Then he flew to Edmonton to talk with Gretzky and the Oilers. After that, to get a feeling for his subjects' nurturing grounds, he went to French Lick, Ind., where one of Bird's older brothers showed him around and introduced him to the family, and Brantford, Ont., where one of Gretzky's younger...
...could barely contain his rage as he tersely announced that the search for Enrique Camarena Salazar had ended. Camarena, a U.S. citizen and an eleven-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, had been kidnaped by four gunmen in Guadalajara early last month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely beaten, and bound, gagged, and stuffed into white plastic...
...families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...
...teetotaler, but he delights in shouting, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" (Let the good times roll). To pay off a $4.4 million campaign debt after his last election, he and some 600 of his supporters, many paying $10,000 a head, boarded two jumbo jets loaded with champagne and flew off on a one-week tour of Paris and Monte Carlo. Edwards happily posed with beautiful women and rolled high at the gaming tables, winning...