Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frankfurt, a U.S. diplomat who is kept informed on the arrivals of freed hostages said an Air Force C-9 jetliner would be sent to Beirut to fly Jacobsen to West Germany...
...subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy Sakharov's own memoirs, they have been preserved, are now in the West, and will eventually also be published...
...virtually empty Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, a relaxed, subdued Daniloff sipped champagne and talked with reporters. The next morning he boarded a flight for Washington. The movie on board was the felicitously titled Sweet Liberty. The crowd of newsmen that awaited him at Dulles Airport rivaled one that might have gathered for, say, a European head of state. Daniloff's daughter Miranda, 23, handed her parents a dozen yellow roses and a bottle of champagne. Then, her eyes welling up with tears, she pinned a single rose on her father's lapel. His son Caleb presented him with...
Habermas, a professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, is the author of eight books, including "Knowledge and Human Interest," "Towards a Rational Society" and "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity...
...Karachi, the drama began early Friday morning as passengers were boarding the plane for the flight to Frankfurt and New York. Most of the passengers were Indians or Pakistanis; the 80 or so Americans on the plane were mainly of South Asian ancestry. Among the travelers was a disgruntled businessman, Jay Grandtier of Parker, Colo., who had left Bombay that morning under the impression that Flight 73 was a nonstop to Frankfurt. "I got even more disappointed as the day went on," he quipped later...