Word: planeload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...cost to members of at least six months standing. Average tab: $230. Most members of teachers, lawyers, fraternal or many other organizations qualify, and an ingenious travel agent can usually find some charter flight for almost anyone. Organizations with at least 40 travelers, but less than a full planeload can reserve space on regularly scheduled airlines for $277 per seat under a plan called "group affinity fares." GROUP INCLUSIVE TOURS are 14-to 21-day travel packages put together by airlines and travel agents. The group must include at least 15 people, but these are usually assembled by the packager...
...Richard Nixon's Washington, drug abuse has reached crisis priority. Heroin addiction mounts appallingly among American soldiers in Viet Nam; each returned planeload of G.I.s adds to the drug malaise at home. Once confined to black urban ghettos, the disease has come to invade the heartland of white, middle-class America. In the judgment of some soberminded politicians, the spread of heroin addiction could have the effect of precipitating an American pullout from Southeast Asia. The President moved last week to head off any such repercussions, declaring a "national emergency" and initiating the most intensive antidrug program yet undertaken...
...dramatic turn in the fighting occurred in the northern provincial capital of Siem Reap, only 21 miles from the fabled temple ruins at Angkor. At midweek, following reports of Communist movement in the area, the hastily fortified Siem Reap airport was shut down. Only twelve hours after the last planeload of tourists had lifted off, the Communists attacked the airport, the most modern in Cambodia, and then the city...
...group of liberal Washington legislators and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins held an informal field investigation of their own. When it was over, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh protested that "What we have seen is enough to make a grown man cry." A planeload of 87 other Washington visitors, led by Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie and including Republican Senator Charles Percy and Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, flew in for the funeral of one of the shooting victims, James Earl Green, 17. They heard Fayette Mayor Charles Evers deliver a eulogy in the same hall in which services had been...