Word: planes
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While Secretary of State James Baker's plane taxied toward waiting dignitaries in Cairo two weeks ago, a senior official hurried to the rear of the cabin on a damage-control mission. Earlier that day Jordan's King Hussein had endorsed Baker's peace odyssey, but without publicly committing himself to joining the regional conference Baker was pushing. Journalists aboard Baker's plane, however, thought the more compelling story was that Saudi Arabia -- touted by Washington for months as the keystone of a new moderate Arab alliance -- would not attend the conference as a full member. The official tried...
Nobody wants to stay in Belize City, which every guidebook dismisses as a noisy dump full of intrusive hustlers. Instead, one heads for the outer islands, such as the Turneffe Islands, that are geared up for sporting tourism, mainly scuba diving, snorkeling and line fishing; or a small plane whisks you north to San Pedro on Ambergris Cay, a thin digit of land that protrudes south from the Mexican border. To the east is the barrier reef, which runs parallel to the coast, less than a mile offshore. To the west are mangroves and shallow flats, and then...
...Hill grieved last week when Senator Henry John Heinz III, 52, was killed in an airplane crash in Pennsylvania. A day later, Washington was once more stunned, when former four-term Texas Senator John Tower, 65, and his daughter Marian, 35, were among those who died in a commuter-plane crash near Brunswick...
...record to give pilots and passengers pause: seven Piper Malibu Mirage aircraft have broken apart in midair in the past 22 months. The manufacturer, Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Fla., insists that the six-seat, single-engine plane is entirely airworthy. The Federal Aviation Administration has suspicions to the contrary and last week issued a directive grounding the 518 remaining Malibus in foul weather and limiting the ways the planes can be flown...
...those little packets of shampoo. She remembers the morning she opened her bathroom cabinet in St. Paul and counted 150 that had followed her home from hotels in dozens of cities. Says the former apparel executive: "I was a workaholic, a crazy, crazy woman. I was on a plane four times a week. I just wanted to get to the top. All of a sudden, I realized that I was reaching that goal but I wasn't happy. A year would go by and I wouldn't know what had happened...