Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Owen, at the time a private citizen volunteering his services to North, made a trip to Costa Rica in 1985 to select a site for an airfield from which arms could be flown to the contras. He testified that he was met and shown around by a CIA agent who helped him choose the location. The CIA was barred at the time from such activities...
More gifts, snapshots, and letters from all members of the firm fly back and forth across the Atlantic as Hanfff is welcome into their spiritual family, "the England of English literature," as Hanff writes. A trip to 84 Charing Cross Road will make you want to join as well...
Secretary of State George P. Shultz asked the Chinese on a trip to Beijing in March to halt weapons shipments to Iran. He reiterated the appeal to a visiting Chinese military delegation here last week...
...species. Next come vacations in the states with the most birds (California, Texas and Florida), followed by forays onto the big-time birding circuit: southeast Arizona for Mexican specialties, the Dry Tortugas for noddies and boobies, Alaska for arctic and Asian species. The final step is the long trip to see a single bird: Michigan for Kirtland's warbler, Calcasieu County in Louisiana for the black francolin, a grueling five-mile trek up the Chisos Mountains in Texas for the Colima warbler...
...owner of a construction company in Haledon, N.J., blames Odear for turning him into a chaser. "Before Bob started the service in January of 1985, I was relatively passive," he says. Komito says he hunts rarities by tacking on a day or two of birding to a legitimate business trip. But when the ruddy ground dove was reported in Texas last November, he was there the next day, with no business trip as an excuse. He expects to fly 300,000 miles on birding trips this year and does not want to tot up the costs. "It would scare...