Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elvises (or should I say 'Elvi'?) boarded the plane--bound, it would turn out, for Graceland, in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the King's birth--it became clear that we passengers were unprepared for our multicultural journey...
...bomb in a van and drove it to the basement of the World Trade Center. The eventual explosion killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Within days the main suspects in the bombing were arrested--except for Yousef, who, using the name Abdul Basit, escaped on a plane to Pakistan just hours after the explosion. Says Dwyer: ``He masterminded every detail of the plot, including his own escape, which he pulled off more expeditiously than anyone else.'' Yousef's capture was the culmination of one of the most extensive and painstaking manhunts in U.S. history...
...rafters temporarily housed in Panama to Guantanamo to fulfill a pledge that they would not stay more than six months. The Cubans, who rioted in December, were angry at being returned to the island they had fled. ``We are political pawns,'' said Alberto Lujardo as he walked off the plane at Guantanamo. ``We've been betrayed by the U.S. government and by the communist government of Cuba...
...American Express and Carlson Wagonlit Travel, will start charging customers fees for writing tickets. The move, which many agencies are expected to follow, is a response to a decision by seven major U.S. airlines to end their 10 percent commissions to travel agents, who make 85 percent of U.S. plane reservations. The airlines say they will pay agents just $25 per one-way domestic ticket and $50 per round-trip fare instead. To help make up the losses, Carlson Wagonlit will charge a $15 service fee beginning Apr. 1, and American Express will charge $20 for domestic tickets priced under...
...conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...