Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right on the button, at 8:20 p.m., the huge Lockheed L1011 jetliner swept out of the evening darkness and touched down at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport near Taipei. Flight 801 from Tokyo was the first plane bearing the blue and white colors of Pan American World Airways to land in Taiwan since 1978; less than 24 hours after its 113 passengers had disembarked last Wednesday, it was at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China. In Peking, China's Assistant Foreign Minister summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires and delivered...
China's objections to Pan Am's planned three flights a week to Taiwan are based on claims that the island remains a part of the mainland. Peking argues that any direct dealings with Taipei by the U.S., whether business, political or military, amount to infringement of China's national sovereignty...
...king of Harvard diving. Dan Watson, will be among the more active Crimson athletes this summer, beginning with the diving championships in Colorado Springs this weekend Watson is competing in the three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform events, hoping to qualify for the Pan-American Games to be held in August. The two top finishers in each event earn a ticket south...
...Angeles is being invaded. Two hours after the Santiagos arrived a Pan American jet landed with 76 Vietnamese refugees on board. And all those immigrants standing in anxious L.A. airport queues, mainly Asians, are only the western flank. At the INS checkpoints to the south in San Diego, nearly 2,500 Mexicans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans are waved through each month. Many more, perhaps 50 times the legal arrivals, slip quietly over the border...
Divestiture did not become an issue in its own right until 1972 when 30 Black students, members of the Harvard based Pan African Liberation Committee occupied the administrative offices in Massachusetts Hall in an attempt to force Harvard to sell $21 million worth of stock in the Gulf Oil Company. The students argued that Gulf, which was conducting operations in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola directly supported the colonization of Africans by paying taxes to the white regime there. The demonstrators vacated the building a week later after the University threatened to file criminal charges. While President Bok refused...