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After being delayed for two days by snow and bad weather, the nuclear exodus from Kazakhstan finally began late on the afternoon of Nov. 20, when the first of two C-5s ferrying the nuclear material lifted off. Their flights home were nonstop, made possible by extra pilots aboard and aerial refuelings over the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. "As soon as the wheels left the ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where...
...phones came alive with buy and sell orders. Within minutes of the Fed's announcement, one trader ran up to chief bond manager Carballeira and roared, "I've got $20 million 3s offered at 4." He got the O.K. sign. "Joe, I have a customer for $50 million 5s at 3." "Those are done," said Carbelleira. "Joe, I got a customer for $10 million 3s at 5." "No more," said Carballeira, and then: "Hey, is everyone all right?" The traders were too busy making deals to answer...
Pine scored the game-winning goal in the team's 2-1 overtime victory against Princeton, clinching an undefeated Ivy season for the NCAA-bound Quakers. Pine was Penn's leading scorer this season with 25 points (10g, 5s). The goal, a blistering straight hit, came off a penalty corner in overtime...
...transport planes of the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command -- used to ship supplies and personnel to Bosnia and Somalia -- have been working almost nonstop since the Persian Gulf War, and now some of the giant C-141s and C-5s are showing worrisome wing cracks and other signs of fatigue. The Air Force is still struggling to catch up on maintenance that had been scheduled two years < ago but was interrupted by the Kuwait crisis. Said one C-141 pilot: "If we were a union, there's no way this carrier could continue flying...
Westover, the nation's oldest Air Force Reserve base, and Dover have been the two main embarkation points for the giant C-5s that form the backbone of the U.S. airlift to and from the Persian Gulf...