Word: sandstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to read the screenplay. Neeson later joked that when he eventually got his hands on the script, security was so tight that Darth Vader himself was standing guard outside the room. (Neeson was, of course, well-paid for his enforced ignorance.) You probably know about the sandstorm in Tunisia that demolished most of the Mos Espa spaceport set when location shooting was only half-finished...
Like most TIME correspondents, David S. Jackson is used to being a stranger in a strange land. During six years of reporting in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, he has survived a sandstorm in Sudan, dodged camels in Saudi Arabia and sampled dog soup in Korea. But it was only after he returned to the U.S. that Jackson took up his most exotic post...
...African-based diplomats, the Arab states think the southern region of Sudan, now held by the rebels, could serve as a possible homeland for the Palestinian diaspora. Observers note that Yasser Arafat was returning to Libya from a meeting with Sudanese leaders when his plane crashed in a sandstorm two weeks ago, nearly costing the P.L.O. chairman his life...
Sure enough, he was rescued 12 hours later with only minor injuries. Three crewmen on his Russian-built turboprop plane were killed when it crash-landed during a sandstorm over the southern Libyan desert. He and his staff of nine had been flying from the Sudan to Libya when the storm closed in. Libyan search planes found the downed craft the next morning. "I'm well," Arafat said...
NICOSIA, Cyprus--A jet carrying Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Yasser Arafat disappeared in a sandstorm 15 minutes before it was to have landed in Libya on a flight from Sudan, officials in his office in Tunis, Tunisia reported...