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January 1979: Urinates on airport runway while awaiting delegation of Libyans...
...negotiated a 50-year lease with Britain for base rights on the atoll. Five years later, U.S. Navy Seabee teams began construction on Diego Garcia. It now has a complete airfield with a 12,000-ft. runway that can accommodate everything from the four-engine P-3 Orion patrol planes that fly submarine tracking missions from Diego to the huge C-5A and C-141 jet transports that land to drop supplies and refuel. The base also has permanent barracks for 820 troops, a large storage complex and a harbor that has been dredged deep enough (45 ft.) to accommodate...
...their trail-may have meant to revive the old Hitchcock tradition of sophisticated comedy. But so frail a genre is more style than substance, and Siegel's trooper-boot direction flattens out the laugh lines and bits of business until they have all the charm of an airport runway. Gelbart was smart enough to remove his name from the credits (hence the screenwriter pseudonym). Reynolds was not so lucky...
...white Cubana Airlines jet roared off the runway of Bogotá's El Dorado Airport Sunday morning for an unscheduled flight to Havana. Among the passengers were twelve diplomatic hostages, including U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Diego Asencio, and 15 armed members of the so-called M-19 guerrilla group. Four other diplomats and two Colombian civilians had been allowed to leave the plane minutes before takeoff; the remaining hostages were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy...
...guerrillas and 16 hostages had left the Dominican embassy at 6:45 a.m., local time, and sped eight miles to the airport in two gray and white Red Cross buses. Escorted to the runway by a Colombian Army Jeep and a yellow airport fire truck, the hostages and their captors slowly filed onto the Cuban plane, which had arrived and refueled about an hour earlier. The guerrillas, wielding semiautomatic weapons, wore masks over their faces and had identification patches stitched to the jackets of their brightly colored sweatsuits...