Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cedras and others would hide in the mountains to conduct a guerrilla campaign against U.S. troops, concentrating sniper fire on white soldiers. Some Haitians even maintained that the voodoo gods were on their side: they had sent Frank Corder's plane to crash into the White House lawn last Monday as a warning, and followed up by telling Clinton he must try to work things out with Cedras...
...north of Baltimore headed south to Washington, flew over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential bedroom. Corder was killed on impact...
Haitink's finale constituted nothing less than a triumph. The "alpenhorn" theme flowed majestically through the Shed and Lawn, as did the brass chorale that follows it. Haitink's initial reading of the main theme (the one derived from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) seemed last at first. The tempo, however, reaped its reward in the development, instead of the usual disconnected and episodic character of that section. Haitink's interpretation was brisk and lively. He could only be faulted for his treatment of the piece's climax--the return of the chorale--which he sprinted through with inappropriate disinterest...
Will the President's house ever be safe? Less than a week after a plane crashed onto the White House lawn, three fire trucks raced to the mansion early this afternoon to investigate smoke in the West Wing, safely away from the room where President Clinton was meeting with exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Verdict: "A light fixture shorted out, and there was a strong odor," said press secretary Dee Dee Myers...
...fatal plane crash, and they seem to add up to one conclusion: a president can never be entirely protected, even at home. For those responsible for providing that protection, some of the details coming to light are particularly embarrassing. For instance, minutes before Corder, 38, smashed onto the lawn and skidded into the White House early Monday, radar at nearby National Airport reportedly detected the plane. Yet, officials did not notify Secret Service agents who guard the mansion. Federal investigators are probing airport records to learn why.A MATHIAS RUST WANNABE? So why'd Frank Corder do it? He appeared...