Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aviv's Lod Airport, the traditional gateway to Jerusalem, is less than an hour's drive from the Holy City. But a trip from the Amman airport can take up to five hours-including a bus drive through the Jordan Valley, a stop at the border for passport and baggage check, and a second bus trip to Jerusalem. The airline offers each tour customer a free excursion flight to the seaside resort of Aqaba in Jordan to offset the inconvenience. Right now, Americans must first fly to Europe and take Alia from a major European city...
...landing in Israel. I am going to land whether you like it or not." After a 20-minute pause, Lod gave Kawas landing instructions. Moments afterward the plane touched down and Israeli troops seized the hijacker, later identified as Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Toumi, 37, a merchant with a Libyan passport, no ostensible links to any terrorist unit, and an obvious overdose of alcohol. Said a stewardess: "He had four Scotches before the hijacking, and he took frequent swigs before we landed...
...villa is also the home of the or ganization's leader, a hefty adventurer whose Swiss passport bears the name of Hans Lenzlinger, but who is more widely known as "the People-Smuggler of Zurich." Now 44, Lenzlinger used to be a big-game hunter in Africa and a trader in animal skins. Then he opened a massage parlor in Zurich in the late '60s. After the parlor ran afoul of the vice squad, he switched to the business of selling freedom. In two years, he claims, he has helped 152 East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Bulgarians flee...
...mass purges and executions, Soviet officials have dismissed dissenters from their jobs, sent them to forced-labor camps, and confined them to prison mental institutions. Their most recent method appears to be a kind of involuntary exile: they allow a dissenter to travel abroad and then snatch away his passport. Last week, after eight months of research in Britain, Zhores Medvedev, a geneticist and gerontologist of international reputation, was called to the Soviet embassy in London where his passport was revoked and he was told that he was no longer a Soviet citizen...
...What they found was a trunk filled with an incredible assortment of items that had once belonged to at least six other women and girls who have mysteriously disappeared or died over the past four years. Police say the trunk contained jewelry, some teeth, women's clothing, a passport and other unspecified "souvenirs...