Word: gangways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Events took a chilling turn on Saturday when the hijackers, frustrated by Kuwait's refusal to meet their demand, invited three reporters to the top of the gangway leading to the craft and demanded that Algeria "fill the airplane with fuel, and we will liquidate our account with Kuwait elsewhere. We don't want to have the massacre in a friendly country." Added the hooded gunman who addressed the reporters: "Kuwait has to know that we do not fear death...
...only two women among the hostages, second cousins of Kuwait's ruler, were the first to descend the gangway from the plane...
...Christmas present from the March of Dimes girl a year and a half ago. Despite the dog's charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious for the presidential mansion and was shipped off to permanent exile last Thanksgiving. After her final flight aboard Air Force One, Lucky stormed down the gangway in full view of TV cameras and, characteristically, relieved herself on the Point Mugu Naval Air Station tarmac...
...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
...navy-blue silk suit and white hat. Her simple presence was grand. As she stepped off Britannia's red-carpeted gangway and set foot for the first time in the Western U.S., she waved primly to the crowd, all the while wearing her chairman-of-the-board face...