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FILE - In this July 7, 1980 file photo, a woman walks past a huge portrait of Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev that dwarfs the symbol of the upcoming XXII Summer Olympics right behind, in Moscow. Brezhnev and his ruling Politburo wanted the games to legitimize the Soviet system, a military superpower and economic basket case. (AP Photo/File)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Over the past six days the U.N. continued to distribute food parcels in the Palestinian camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)
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South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae adjusts his glasses during a press conference at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. While North Korea is threatening to cancel a reunion of Korean War-divided families later this month only one day after agreeing on dates for the emotional meetings, Ryoo said that the agreement must be followed. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 photo, the control tower at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Linthicum, Md., is seen. A lightning strike on the tower, which also injured an air traffic controller, is prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to examine hundreds of air traffic control towers nationwide, the agency told The Associated Press. Officials will be looking for problems with the systems that protect the towers from lightning strikes. (AP Photo/The Capital, Paul W. Gillespie)
