Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force. The President was looking forward to the last day of his San Clemente vacation when word of the first two hijackings arrived. Flying back to Washington in Air Force One, Nixon received another bulletin. Pan Am's hijacked 747 had been blown up on the tarmac in Cairo. The President's immediate reaction: "Were the people...
Captive Passengers. The airlines are invariably jampacked. Experienced travelers learn never to count on a reservation. Clerks regularly overbook, schedules are meaningless, and aircraft often inexplicably sit on the tarmac hours after departure time-not that that is so unusual in the U.S. these days. Once in the air, passengers can never be sure where they are going to land, especially in winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot...
...sweltering tarmac of Lagos' Ikeja Airport last week, ground crewmen unloaded relief materials from the 13 nations cooperating in the effort to help save 1,000,000 or more I bo tribesmen who are in peril of starvation. Despite occasionally grudging cooperation from the Nigerian government (relief planes, for instance, were charged landing fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic...