Word: caledonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French assault on the New Caledonian rebels provoked almost as much controversy. But Overseas Territories Minister Bernard Pons insisted that he took action only because "we believed that at any moment there would be a massacre" of the hostages. Leaders of New Caledonia's secessionists accused . the French of staging the assault to gain votes. Declared the rebels in a statement: "This has created a legacy of blood and fire that will increase our resolve...
Soon after the President's jetliner touched down at Tontouta Airport, he was taken by helicopter to the New Caledonian capital of Noumea, 33 miles away. He was met by 25,000 anti-independence demonstrators waving French flags, singing the Marseillaise and displaying banners that read "Caledonie Francaise Toujours." In the morning, Mitterrand held meetings with Pisani and leaders on both sides of the independence issue...
Somewhere over the western Mediterranean or southern France last Friday evening, a British Caledonian Airways jetliner heading northwest toward London crossed paths with a Libyan airliner flying southeast toward Tripoli. The planes were carrying home the second and final contingents of British and Libyan diplomats, thereby ending an eleven-day war of nerves between the two countries. It had begun a week earlier when an unidentified man fired shots through the windows of the Libyan embassy in London, killing a British policewoman and wounding eleven Libyan dissidents gathered outside in St. James's Square...
Boeing has also won an enviable service record to back up its sales. Its maintenance teams and spare-parts pallets from Seattle turn up anywhere around the world quickly whenever the company's planes develop problems. Says British Caledonian's engineering director, William Richardson: "We can signal that we need a part on Monday afternoon, and it will be in London on Tuesday morning...
Richardson relates an experience familiar to just about every airline executive who has suddenly found himself in need of service and spare parts to get a grounded Boeing back on line. Part of the fuselage wiring in a 707 cargo plane that British Caledonian was operating under lease from another company shorted out and caught fire during loading at Britain's Gatwick Airport outside London and had to be replaced before the plane could fly. Boeing sent in a "recovery crew" from Seattle, which took on the job like a team of open-heart surgeons. Not only did each...