Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bhutto was convicted of complicity in a political murder conspiracy and hanged in 1979. Zia was killed in plane crash Aug. 17 after the election date had been...
...captured 92 of the parliament's 237 seats, decisively beating the Islamic Democratic Alliance, its nearest competitor and the relic of Zia, who died in a plane crash three months before the vote. The Alliance won only 55 seats. A surge of ethnic support thrust the fledgling Mohajir Qaumi Movement into the third and pivotal position with 13 seats...
...space plane has ushered in a new era in the history of Soviet space exploration," trumpeted Radio Moscow. Western observers were no less admiring. "This shows that the Russians' boldness and ambition is matched by their ingenuity," says James Oberg, a Houston engineer and an expert on the Soviet space program. "It blows us out of our last space-operations monopoly." The Soviet program achieved a second milestone just a few days earlier: on board the orbiting Mir space station, which has no U.S. equivalent, cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov broke the world record of 326 days in space...
...Government formed in the fuselage of Air Force One, yet another ritual that mocked dignity. But it was, perhaps, that magnificent plane that began to reclaim the majesty of the presidency. With the body of Kennedy onboard, the new President invested formally, Colonel James Swindal taxied his plane out on the emptied runway of Love Field. The ship paused in lonely splendor, then lifted off into a blue sky, clean and beautiful even in that mournful flight...
Some will head home today, others will visit friends or relatives, and Harvard Dining Services is ready to approximate home cooking for about 350 students who can't spare the time or the plane fare to get the real thing...