Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilots made three more efforts to shake their pursuers. Each . time, observers in a Navy E-2C radar plane flying nearby heard the Libyan ground controller order the MiG pilots to jink into potential collision courses with the Tomcats. The MiGs normally carry radar-guided Apex as well as heat-seeking Aphid missiles. While the Aphid homes in on a jet's fiery exhaust, the Apex is effective when launched at a target's nose...
...African students and a security guard at the gate of Hehai University, which has the most black students of any Nanjing campus. According to official accounts, which were contested by foreign students, the Africans refused to register the names of their Chinese dates at a party. Chinese students heard a false report that the foreigners had killed the security guard and rampaged through the Africans' dormitory, looting expensive stereo equipment and smashing furniture. At least 13 people were injured in the melee. The Chinese then went on a hunt for the black students, filling the streets and shouting, "Beat...
...going to get tricky. "I can't imagine anyone here calling him Mr. President," predicts Bartlett, owner of Port Hardware. "It has always been 'Hi, George, how are you?' Hell, I've never heard anyone call him Mr. Bush...
...tape supports additional assertions of administration officials that the two F-14's repeatedly tried to maneuver away as the Libyan fighters pursued them; the pilot of the lead F-14 can be heard counting each time he tries to head away, only to have the "bogies jink back into...
Less than two minutes later, the fire storm began over Lockerbie. Said George Gilston, who was walking his dog when the jet fell out of the sky: "I heard a noise like thunder, and then I saw the outline of a plane dropping, nose down, straight into the ground." Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled...