Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jacket, Cuban-born Pedro Rene Comas- Banos apparently slipped past American Airlines security in Los Angeles International Airport on Memorial Day weekend carrying a starter's pistol, two knives and a pair of scissors. Soon after, he forced a Miami-bound 727 to head for Havana. Pleading that the plane was running out of fuel, the pilot landed in Florida, where, after 90 minutes of negotiation with the FBI, the hijacker surrendered...
Following Zia's sudden death in a plane crash last August, Bhutto began a cross-country campaign to gain the post of prime minister, promising to safeguard human rights, lift restrictions on the freedom of the press and improve the education and well-being of the country's poor...
...members of the Board of Overseers meet to criticize some of the Young Report's recommendations, saying that the proposed reforms would stifle diversity on the Board. One overseer describes the plan as "a plane with a big hole in the fuselage...
...plane flight home from Boston two weeks ago, I met a visiting student from China who had just finished several months of study at a Harvard graduate school. He was on his way home as well...
...said goodbye, he going to meet a friend in New York for a few days before traveling to China, and I taking the next plane to Washington. He assured me that he would be in direct physical danger, and I, at a loss for words, wished him the best of luck...