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Nearly ten years ago, a small band of wary Americans boarded an air-worn converted C-141 tanker. They roared off into the night from Andrews Air Force Base, held their ears from the shattering sound, chewed on half-cooked steaks, and eleven hours later stumbled onto the Helsinki tarmac as the November sun set. It was the U.S. advance guard sent to begin talking with the Soviet Union about limiting strategic nuclear arms. Delegation Chief Gerard Smith turned on his hotel TV and watched the Soviets get off their train. Where will it all end? he wondered...
...gesture was eloquent. Emerging from the doorway of Air Force One on the floodlit tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base last week, an exhausted Jimmy Carter greeted several thousand welcomers by flinging open his arms. It was a movement that oddly combined a sense of triumph with just a hint of martyrdom. Said Carter: "I believe that God has answered our prayers...
...chartered Air France 747 circled over the city and past the nearby Elburz Mountains three times before settling down gently on the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. As aides and reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of the aircraft's door into the chill February morning. His back hunched, he clutched the arm of an Air France purser as he walked down the portable ramp to touch Iranian soil. After 15 years in exile, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 78, spiritual leader of a revolution that has been building...
...seen a president before, and many because a presidential visit is always an honor. As the plane touched down at Hanscom field early in the afternoon, a cry went up from the small crowd waiting patiently. "Oooh--Isn't it beautiful?" they said. Air Force One taxied around the tarmac, and stopped just in front of the portable steps that motored out to let him disembark. The crowd waited, and sure enough Jimmy soon appeared at the top of the stairs, just like every picture you've ever seen, and waved a little. He descended and was lost momentarily...
...northwest of Washington, was Carter. Tuesday, while he and Rosalynn made a last-minute inspection of the "cottages" in which Sadat and Begin were to stay, Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance headed for Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit...