Word: hr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...requirement that their pilots pass regular proficiency tests for the specific planes they operate. Japan Air Lines last week apologized for allowing Katagiri to fly, admitting that he was reinstated as captain even though he had not fulfilled the JAL rule that pilots log at least 25 hr. of flying time a month...
...crisis, then performs heroically in the next. Here are the hide-and-seek battles, the claustrophobic tensions, the respect for a valiant enemy. As with David, the novelty here is getting the inside German view. Das Boot has thrills aplenty; it moves full speed ahead through its 2½-hr. running time. Of the 40,000 U-boat men in World War II, 28,000 were killed, and the film is careful to emphasize the fatal futility of all this derring-do. Still, Das Boot should be instructive for American audiences. It shows that some of the bad guys were...
...stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7½ hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher. "We're sold out of just about everything." In fact...
...never came. In his 2½-hr. meeting with Reagan, Schmidt blunted the sharply critical approach that the President had planned with some disarming observations. He admitted that his first reaction to the Polish crisis was soft, but said he had not been fully briefed. Then, veering off the subject, he apologized for a West German vote on a United Nations resolution in December attacking U.S. policy in El Salvador. Most important, Schmidt readily agreed to endorse a formal joint statement that stressed his support for the American position on Poland...
Jaruzelski last week summoned eight West European diplomats to a 1½-hr. meeting at which he defended his martial law decision as the only cure for anarchy. Accusing Solidarity "extremists" of "haughtiness," he cryptically suggested that some of the interned union leaders might be exiled to the West. The general also attacked the U.S. economic sanctions as "interference" in Polish affairs and denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming...