Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TUESDAY: Flight 800's Final Moments A graphic CIA video says the TWA disaster had nothing to do with friendly fire...
...been the first U-2 flight since Saddam Hussein ordered U.S. weapons inspectors out of Iraq last Friday, and the fact that it passed without incident was a sign of emerging d?tente. What Madeleine Albright described as a "little carrot" for Saddam ? allowing Iraq to sell more oil in exchange for food in return for allowing the inspectors back ? was being discussed by American, British, French and Russian officials...
...YORK: It was an awfully graphic way to put to rest the conspiracy theories: A video produced by the CIA featuring vivid animation of TWA Flight 800 cracking up and its debris being roasted was presented today at an FBI press conference...
...course, the FBI still don't know what caused the crash beyond an unspecified mechanical failure. But the reconstruction sought to nix niggling fears of a friendly fire incident, and to prove that what dissenting eyewitnesses had seen was not a missile going up, but Flight 800 coming down. At least one skeptic was convinced: Kallstrom said Pierre Salinger had called to concur with his findings...
...worked. The announcement went out to families overseas on Monday; domestic letters were posted Wednesday. But by Thursday morning, there it was on page one. "This was just a snafu," Shannon said after talking to FBI officials. "Especially because he has a close friend whose wife was on the flight, Kallstrom feels very strongly about avoiding any insensitivity to those families. But the letter got leaked. He's not happy about it." The formal announcement may come next week; in any case the news was a surprise to no one. "They had some tests to conclude, and then...