Word: planeloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Muammar Gadhafi has threatened to defy U.N. sanctions barring air travel to or from Libya, and today he did, sort of. The sanctions were imposed in1992 to force Libya to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a planeload of 150 Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli for a pilgrimage to Mecca -- only to turn right around and land again. Then U.N. officials decided to make an exception for religious flights, saying, "Libyan pilgrims should not be denied the right to pilgrimage and should not suffer for the actions of their...
...scaled chain-link fences topped by razor wire surrounding the camps, two have drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and another dozen have attempted suicide. (Only 1,171 out of the nearly 8,500 originally brought there from Guantanamo have obtained visas to the United States.) The first planeload of refugees will arrive at Guantanamo tomorrow morning. Said Gen. George Crocker, the operation's commander: "There are some individuals who want to cause problems, but we are ready for any contingency...
...maintain their position without submitting to every industry demand for videos or major-label distribution. But for the most part, and with ever greater efficiency, the new is discovered, distributed and disarmed. (Hear that, Seattle; Athens, Georgia; Austin, Texas? Make one new move, and we'll send a planeload of advance scouts.) That in turn makes it harder to come up with much that's new. ("Unless people start wearing lumber," says the performer and fashion watcher Sandra Bernhard, "there's not much more designers can do.") Even the growth of multiculturalism can make hip more difficult. It's harder...
...flocked to tony U.S. stores last week, snapping up bargains. Shoppers like Pirrera Enza, a bank worker from Sicily, stocked up on perfumes and cosmetics at Bloomingdale's in New York City for less than half their price at home. Enza flew back a few days later with a planeload of beaming compatriots toting bags and luggage bulging with American-bought goods...
Perot's best-known and most extensive unofficial operations, of course, have been those involving U.S. prisoners of war, real or imagined, in Vietnam. The operations began with his shipment of a planeload of food and clothes to them at Christmas in 1969, an unexceptionable venture that made him a hero (even though the shipment did not get through). For a while after the peace accords of 1973, he became convinced that there were no more Americans being held prisoner in Vietnam, but later he became equally positive that there were and are -- why he has never made clear...