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...caught up with Obama as he flew from Amman to Tel Aviv aboard his newly remodeled campaign plane. As we talked in his front cabin, his only nod to comfort was that he loosened his tie slightly and leaned his elbows on his knees as we talked about what he had seen and learned so far. More than anything else, he said, the four days he had spent in Afghanistan and Iraq had been a validation of what he already believed...
...TIME: First of all, how do you like your new plane...
...Indian Ocean isn't recommended: two foreigners were killed this year by sharks. Do the perils of this story get the Nairobi-based Purvis down? A little, he admits. ''The decision to come here can be trying, although I always feel better when I'm on the plane and the job has begun.'' We look forward to knowing he is on a plane home, his work well done...
...already the public charges, by both friends and foes of the anti-Sandinista rebels, are beginning to fly. Instead of speechmaking about Marxists marching across the Texas border, CIA Director William Casey told members of Congress last week of U.S. intelligence reports revealing that a Soviet An-30 reconnaissance plane had recently flown at least four missions over Nicaragua. The Administration speculated that the aircraft might have been used to help the Sandinistas gain information on contra operations. White House officials also said that a Soviet freighter had delivered a large shipment of arms to the Nicaraguan port of Corinto...
...float-equipped Cessna into a tight, 80 degrees bank, and a few moments later landed in the light chop near a sizable school of big black-and- white orcas, the clownish and sociable five-ton mammals called killer whales. Pointed black fins and huge wet backs surrounded the plane in a companionable way. A mother whale and her calf bobbed by. The pilot watched in awe with his passenger. He could count on finding mountain goats on most any flight and . perhaps a few sea otters floating on their backs in the waves and cracking clams on their chests...