Word: tu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assault team was waiting when the Tu-154 touched down at a field near Leningrad, Tass said...
About 3 p.m. Moscow time, while the Tu-154 with 76 passengers was over the Vologda region east of Leningrad, the hijackers sent a note to the cockpit, Tass said...
...plateau strewn magnificently with poinsettia trees the size of small maples, all in bloom. A thousand varieties of orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging from the massive teak bed is skillfully patched and blessedly intact...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 1980. My oldest brother was letting off a steady stream of terse French phrases while walking through the Iron Market. He used stock phrases, usually ending up with "Tu n'en as pas besoin" (You don't need it) to a beggar or "Je n'en ai pas besoin" (I don't need it) to a street vendor...
...carriers, twelve nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked at Cam Ranh Bay, just 870 nautical miles from the U.S. bases in the Philippines. At an adjacent airfield is a squadron of 24 Soviet combat aircraft, including 18 TU-16 Badger reconnaissance jets...