Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini were able to lift the siege after two hours, but the Carter Administration (as well as the British and several other Western governments) concluded that the lives of foreigners in Iran could no longer be protected. On Friday, in the first stage of an exodus from anarchy, a Pan American 707 flew from Tehran's Mehrabad Airport to Frankfurt and New York with 151 people aboard. On Saturday, under tight security provided by the Khomeini regime, chartered Pan Am 747s began the full-scale evacuation of Americans to Frankfurt and Rome...
...Carter Administration that Bazargan and the Ayatullah want to build friendly relations with the U.S. Washington was also impressed by the new government's help in arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow six C-131 planes and five HH-53 helicopters to be flown to the NATO air base at Incirli, Turkey, some 850 miles from Tehran. These would be used...
...exhibition−which includes 110 objects by 56 painters and sculptors, along with programs of film and video work by 32 other artists−are not likely to be known to most museum visitors. What the five curators who chose the show have given us is a pan around a diverse, though often bland horizon, rather than a squared-up essay in the dominance of some historical direction. And rightly so: one lesson of the past ten years in American art has been that movements have vanished with the death of the avantgarde. The very idea of collaborative groupings, once...
...Harvard basketball team, after losing to Princeton Friday night in the Jadwin Gymnasium frying pan, fell into the fire Saturday night here at the Palestra, when the University of Pennsylvania outgunned the Crimson, 86-73, before 7387 basketball afficionados...
When Tehran's airport reopened, a jetliner chartered from Pan American World Airways picked up 154 people and flew them to West Germany. Two jetliners, capable of carrying 400 people each will continue the evacuation today, Carter said...