Word: 130s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pining for a photo op in the Balkan war zone, they will have to get their snapshots the hard way. When Deputy Secretary of State STROBE TALBOTT flew in to the Macedonian capital of Skopje a few weeks ago in one of the Air Force's Lockheed C-130s, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder...
...strips and drop zones, it did not have enough chartered planes to make deliveries: it had just one C-130 Hercules, which can carry 16 tons of cargo, and two smaller Buffalos. At the end of April, the Sudanese government grudgingly gave clearance for three more chartered C-130s. Soon four big Ilyushin-76s (cargo capacity: 32 tons) are also to be allowed in. With this beefed-up air service, deliveries will soon reach 10,000 tons a month. That is better, but not close to the 15,000 tons required. "The only way to put an end to this...
...television could go where the wreckage was, and one could peer into the obscure video to find the pieces that were eventually going to become a comprehensible story. Boats maneuvered in the darkness. Nets dipped into the black water. Flares dropped by C-130s hung in the sky like naked light bulbs at the ends of luminescent cords...
After nearly a week locked in by fog, Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that the Tuzla airport was busy today with the roar of huge Air Force C-130s landing and taking off. "They began coming in this morning at about eleven," says Stiglmayer, "and were still arriving this evening. More than 20 flights came in today, most of them carrying equipment. The planes landed, soldiers rushed out, unloaded them and, in less than ten minutes, they were off again." Stiglmayer says that two of the flights carried troops from the 325th Infantry who will provide airport security. "One sergeant told...
...next week, long lines of Vietnamese, and some Americans, snaked through a former gym at Tan Son Nhut, waiting to be cleared to board the American C-130s and C-141s that were leaving constantly during daylight hours. Stamping of their papers continued all night. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, under pressure from the State Department, had agreed to let the Vietnamese enter--mostly through Guam and the Philippines--if they could find an American to vouch for them. To help Vietnamese women get out, Smith adds, "we just married them right in the lines, sometimes," to American...