Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposals. But wherever he went, he was never able to escape the long shadow of his rival, not even aboard Air Force One on the way to his first stop, Hartford, Conn. As a courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press Secretary Jody Powell...
...When the plane touched down, bringing home four nationalist terrorists newly released after more than two decades in U.S. prisons, the crowd tore down protective fences and surged forward, chanting "?Viva Puerto Rico Libre...
...Home at last," said Rafael Cancel Miranda, 49, as he stepped out of the plane, fist high in the air. Echoed a tearful Oscar Collazo, 67, who had stormed Blair House in an attempt to shoot and kill President Truman in 1950: "I am so happy to be in a place where I am not afraid to express my emotions." (His 45-year-old niece rushed to embrace him, apparently suffered a heart attack, and died minutes later on the way to a hospital.) A third man, Irving Flores Rodriguez, 54, declared that liberty "has to be conquered by blood...
Bokassa flew to France when his plane ran short of fuel and was allowed to land but was refused asylum, official French sources said yesterday. He was expected to fly to Libya this morning...
...racquetwomen had a good season last winter despite several setbacks. Top-ranked Sarah Mlezcko, one of Harvard's finest athletes, decided to take a rest from competitive sports. And later in the campaign, tragedy struck when freshman star Cynthia Stanton died in a plane crash...