Word: travels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regime has switched tactics. Reversing years of heavy restriction on citizens' travel, the authorities in Sofia agreed to issue passports and exit visas to ethnic Turks with the aim of limiting further clashes by reducing the size of the Turkish minority, and the mass exodus began. By last week 238,000 had crossed the border. Officials in Ankara believe the total could reach...
...least three foreigners survived the wreck, said Teresita Rubio at Turismo Tagore in Guasave. She said two men and a woman from Manchester, England, came to the travel agency for help, washed the mud off their clothes, got some food and headed for San Diego...
...Toronto and Los Angeles scares were the sort of mishaps that have always plagued air travel; pilot error, leaks, blown tires and engine shutdowns are frequent occurrences. But the Flight 232 disaster was of a different order altogether: a loss of all three of the plane's redundant hydraulic systems at the same moment, rendering it almost impossible to control. FAA investigators are combing a 16-sq.-mi. area of Iowa cornfields for pieces of a fan disk of the plane's No. 2 engine, which was mounted high on the DC-10's tail. They hope that examining...
...Neptune, the most distant of the giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about a little known object that is almost four times the size of earth but appears in earthly telescopes only as a fuzzy blue-green ball...
...TRAVEL: For those who trouble to venture beyond the expressway, the character and color of the frontier are alive and well...