Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foggy weather and low cloud cover. But last Tuesday morning, the skies were clear as Iberia Airlines Flight 610 from Madrid began its landing approach. A few moments later, only 19 miles from the airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...
...violence seems likely to mount: Colombia's drug kings have sworn to kill five Americans for every compatriot extradited to the U.S. They have even placed a $300,000 bounty on the heads of U.S. narcotics agents, dead or alive. "These are very tough and mean men," says a Panama City banker familiar with the drug trade. "If you attack their livelihood, they'll fight you until the death...
Harvard has likewise joined with fifteen other universities and colleges in urging the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa to mount active and sustained opposition to the influx control laws integral to the maintenance of apartheid...
...observed Nicholas Lemann in a penetrating article about Weinberger in the Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island, a bastion of old-line Yankees. Daughter Arlin, a | utility employee, is a Californian; Son Cap Jr., a public relations executive who was once president of the Operation Match computer dating service, lives in Washington...
...January, Washington suspended the talks that U.S. and Nicaraguan officials had been having in Mexico since last June. The State Department is nevertheless still hopeful about persuading Congress to subsidize the contras. "Motley's testimony was only our first shot," said one official. "We have not yet begun to mount our offensive...