Word: flew
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Arthur says Hansen failed flight school because she was a marginal flyer who would not improve with training. Maybe so, although she flew for more than a year, sometimes solo, with good marks. Some admirals are more enlightened than the men below them, but until they shake up the ranks little will change. For the moment, perhaps the only way women can make their point is to take a few admirals down with the ship...
That chilling prospect was not lost on the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was dispatched to Lagos by President Bill Clinton two weeks ago in hopes of defusing the crisis. Jackson stayed two days, then flew back to the U.S., warning that he saw little hope. Civil war in Nigeria, he suggested, would send shock waves throughout West Africa and make the ethnic conflagration that has engulfed Rwanda look like "child's play...
...After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died or deserted," recalls Aloysia Inyumba, now Minister for Women. "Kagame asked us, 'Who is going on with me? Fighting is not about guns. It's not about territory. It's in the mind. We can fight with sticks. We can fight with stones...
...relief supplies. "There are all these aircraft sitting here, and the military just milling around," observed one of at least a dozen relief workers trying unsuccessfully to reach Goma from Entebbe last week. Several U.S. military flights that did make it as far as Goma circled the airstrip, then flew back to Entebbe after missing their landing-slot time because workers on the ground took too long to unload cargo from other planes. Government officials were demanding fees for allowing planes to land. American troops who did make it to Goma installed water- purification equipment that by Saturday was producing...
...from rust and decay by men and women who, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew in the Pacific, lovingly restored by men with heroic memories and oversize checkbooks (half a million dollars...