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...more than twelve hours, the jumbo jet was missing, eluding a massive air and sea search by French, U.S. and South African authorities. When an SAA rescue plane finally located the wreckage about 175 miles northeast of Mauritius late last week, there was no sign that any of the 140 passengers and 19 crew members had survived. Should none be found, the crash would be the worst ever for state...
...island only 21 miles long and 12 miles wide, Grenada has a surprisingly impressive airport. The 9,000-ft. runway of Point Salines International Airport can easily accommodate jumbo jets from any part of the world. But the most action the tarmac gets these days is from twin-engine Avro 748 island hoppers from Trinidad and Barbados. Cuban engineers began building the airport in the early 1980s, during the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. One U.S. invasion and $19 million in aid later, Point Salines International is completed and, much like Grenada, sits waiting for something to happen...
...Crimson responded to the change with four unanswered points off of Burger's serves. After Tufts failed to score on its serve, the spikers went ahead when Tapson shanked one off of a Jumbo defender...
...mumbo-jumbo at the end of the movie further demonstrates Almodovar's utter lack of subtlety, his chaotic design. Indeed, he takes no notice of any traditional ideas of propriety. But as one of his characters says, "It's not enough to be unscrupulous. You have to have a certain sense of humor." In Law of Desire, Almodovar uses his well...
First, as always, came the pomp and the outpourings of adulation. A military band blared and a cheering throng waved yellow-and-white papal flags at Miami International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace...