Word: phantomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flights, a Libyan Airlines 727 bound for Cairo blundered into airspace above the Israeli-occupied Sinai Desert, which had been declared an official war zone. Israeli officials, worried by reports that Arab terrorists planned to use a civilian airliner in a kamikaze attack on an Israeli city, ordered up Phantom F-4E interceptors. When the French pilot of the jet seemed to ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit conversations from the crash later revealed that the pilot...
...doomed to have to undergo what has been an extraordinarily partisan hearing," he said. On reviewing the transcript of the hearing last month, Hiler discovered that his remark had been altered to read: "We are unfortunately doomed?" And there, astonishingly, the sentence ended. This and other surprising examples of phantom fiddling with the official record of House committee hearings had the effect of making Republicans look worse and Democrats better...
...small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that have been tearing up streets. As if to underscore the new realities of life in the Falklands, a British Phantom jet fighter screamed overhead...
...only word of a Royal Navy submarine stirs much interest. The busiest part of town is the jetty, where supplies are taken off the ships and soldiers come and go all day. Trucks hauling machinery and building supplies snort up the hills toward Stanley Airport, which is crowded with Phantom and Harrier jets and ringed by gleaming Rapier antiaircraft missiles...
...When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me...You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy...