Word: turbojet
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...exiled to the city of Gorky (formerly Nizhni Novgorod) for "subversive activities," and then was allowed to phone his wife. Given two hours, Yelena Sakharov packed up a few clothes and her ailing husband's heart medicine. By nightfall, police had whisked the couple aboard a Tu-134 turbojet on a regularly scheduled flight to Gorky, a military and industrial center on the Volga River, 260 miles east of Moscow. The Sakharovs have been sent to an area that is off limits to foreigners, and the Kremlin hopes they have been effectively cut off from the Western world...