Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LENINAKAN, U.S.S.R.--Adding to the tragedy of this earthquakedevastated city, a Soviet military transport plane carrying soldiers to help in rescue efforts crashed as it approached the airport, killing 78 people, the Tass News Agency said...
...Belgian relief team of experts carrying 40 tons of equipment including four-wheel-drive vehicles left for Yerevan yesterday, as did an Israeli plane with a 42-person team headed by an army general...
Coincidentally, another familiar Iran-contra figure, Israeli arms agent and counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir, died last week in the crash of a small Cessna plane in Mexico. The pilot also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
...those jokes that begins, "This guy goes to heaven, OK?..." In this case Joe Pendleton, a boxer, (or in Warren Beatty's version a professional football player, but then this play has gone through almost as many permutations as the jokes) is apparently about to die in a plane crash, and a newly hired angel, hoping to spare him some suffering, takes his soul a little early...
...plane, which will not make its maiden flight until early next year, was rolled out to a specially composed Stealth Fanfare last week at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The coming-out party was both a public relations move and a pre-emptive strike against defense-budget cutters in Congress. Conservative estimates place the price tag on a single B-2 at $500 million. That figure could rise to $850 million by 1995. The Air Force wants to build 132 of the bombers for about $70 billion...