Word: planes
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...have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form of the deal was still going on. As Jiang was conferring with Clinton in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning, Albright and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen finally agreed on a compromise: a confidential, two-page letter...
...just keeps coming back in your face. This time the Iraqi dictator decreed that Americans would no longer be allowed on the 40-member U.N. inspection team that is hunting for remnants of his weapons programs. He stopped three U.S. inspectors from disembarking in Baghdad last Thursday, sending their plane back to Bahrain, and threatened to kick the other 10 Americans on the team out of his country this week. On Saturday, Saddam produced a mob of angry demonstrators who burned American flags in front of the U.N. offices in Baghdad...
...asking price was too good to turn down ? the F-15, the U.S. equivalent of the MIG-29C, goes for around $50 million per plane. ?It really was a steal,? says Thompson. ?I think they?d have bought the MIGs at that price even if Iran hadn?t been interested. They want to see how the engines work, the electronic boxes, the missiles and other subcomponents. I don?t believe they?re even necessarily going to be flown.? Coming in a couple of years: one heck of a garage sale...
...just about to take a job interpreting at that year's Venice film festival," Di Cosmo recalls. "But two days after I was notified, I was on a plane...
...plane a stewardess gave me a bottle of champagne, which on arrival I began drinking immediately," he says. "That made the change much easier...