Word: transport
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...Peru's Vargas Llosa belongs to a long line of Emma Bovary's professional admirers. Gustave Flaubert's scandalous character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character who can transport himself to Yonville to play a role in Madame Bovary. "The mark of a classic," wrote Allen, "is that you can reread it a thousand times and always find something...
Little more than $1000 went to transport aid to Nicaraguan refugees...
...others say Washington. Then, in November, a ship loaded with parts for American-made F-4 jets and helicopters sailed from northern Italy to Israel. The cargo was transferred to a plane carrying Israeli-supplied Hawk antiaircraft missiles for shipment to Iran. The plane was provided by Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns out, the shipment was returned to Israel in February for unknown reasons...
...helped North supply the contras over the past two years. One possibility is that the funds were used to finance the string of airlifts that have delivered supplies to the rebels during the past few months. Those flights received unwanted publicity two months ago, when a C-123K air-transport plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua and an American crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and tried by the Sandinistas. But most of the supplies, according to a knowledgeable source, consisted of boots, clothing and small arms...
...extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco in 1986, steal a whale or two and transport their precious cargo . . . back to the future...