Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affair. Duvalier has even clamped down on his own family. Army Colonel Max Dominique, military commander of Port-au-Prince and the hus band of Duvalier's 26-year-old daughter, was sent packing off to Madrid as Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. As Dominique's plane taxied down the strip, Duvalier's private Gestapo or Tonton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen), jumped Dominique's two bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered...
...March 23, 1967, a small plane crashed into a mountainside 20 miles north of Da Nang, Vietnam, killing all eight passengers and the pilot. The passengers--all of them American educators--were conducting a survey on behalf of the Agency for International Development on public universities in South Vietnam. The plane crash occurred only a week before the educators were scheduled to return home from their year-long study...
After the plane crash, three men, including Russel G. Davis, lecturer on Education and associate director of the Center for Studies in Education and Development, assumed responsibility for completing the report...
...were already staging a military coup against the Midwestern governor, and the city fell with hardly a shot. Other towns soon followed, including the bustling southern port of Warri. That night, a Biafran B-26 bombed three heavily populated suburbs in the federal capital of Lagos; next morning, the plane hit the Nigerian air force base at the Northern administrative capital of Kaduna. In between times, it dropped thousands of leaflets on federal territory, warning of "the terrible consequences of continued collaboration" with Gowon. "Now that we are on the offensive," Ojukwu announced over Radio Biafra, "we shall not relent...
...that marked the campaign was really over, shopkeepers cautiously kept their stores barricaded last week, days after the election. Despite the assurances of Governor Sir John Shaw Rennie that his police can keep order, everyone knows that the nearest British armed forces are at least seven hours away by plane-in Aden, where they already have their hands full...