Word: planes
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...began with a coincidence: Winnie Mandela, on her way to see her husband, who was in a hospital recovering from prostate surgery, happened to be on the same flight to Cape Town in 1985 as Kobie Coetsee, then South Africa's Justice Minister. She boldly marched up to the plane's first-class section and engaged the Justice Minister in conversation. The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu, unannounced visit to the world's most famous political prisoner. Mandela, dressed only in his hospital gown, greeted Coetsee not as his jailer-which he technically was-but as if he were...
...reveals a T shirt emblazoned NEW YORK. In fact, since 1988 Chicago has become Garcia's second home. After 25 years guarding the Boy Heroes, he earns only $40 a week. For the past seven years, he has taken a May-to-October leave of absence, hopped a plane to visit his sister, then overstayed his tourist visa to work as a butcher for $260 a week. ``As soon as my children finish university, I'll stop,'' Garcia says. ``Money is like air--without it, you have nothing. The U.S. should allow us to come work when...
...Tokyo market brought down Britain's oldest investment bank. Nicholas Leeson, a Briton who worked in Singapore, fled that country when his bet caused some $1 billion in losses for Baring Brothers & Co., after a drop in the Tokyo market last week. Police pulled him off a plane in Frankfurt last night and are detaining him. An extradition hearing before a judge is expected to take place tomorrow. TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce Van Voorst says legal wrangling could keep Leeson in Germany for months. He notes the Germans have not interrogated Leeson, but they have had "chats" during which...
...According to several board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside the organization as Gibson's ``special friend''; extra hotel rooms at N.A.A.C.P. conventions, at which Gibson had already been provided with free accommodations; and $126,000 for limousines. In addition to having his credit-card bills paid by the organization...
...Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, as Denver International Airport prepared to open Tuesday -- 16 months late, $3.2 billion over budget and with underground carts tugging baggage every which way as most of a computerized system continues to malfunction. At 12:41 a.m. Monday, the first commercial flight (a Federal Express plane) touched down. The jokes started again, though, when a snowstorm developed later in the day, threatening to force the airport to close before the first passenger jet arrives Tuesday at 6 a.m. As for the baggage system, designed to allow easy check-ins as late as 20 minutes before departure...