Word: ac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious but highly unlikely accusation also took wing briefly last week: that American reconnaissance aircraft, including AC-130 Spectre gunships, are flying regular spying missions over Nicaragua. A U.S. military man in Honduras, claiming access to classified material, told several journalists that the spy flights have been going on for several months under the direction of both the CIA and the US. military, and that the U.S. aircraft regularly penetrate about 100 miles into Nicaraguan airspace. He further claimed that most of the flights originated at Howard Air Force Base in Panama or at military bases...
...intelligence officials vehemently challenged the accusations. Not only were such flights not occurring, they are unnecessary. The U.S. eavesdrops on Nicaragua very effectively by using reconnaissance satellites as well as side-looking radar installed on aircraft that steer clear of Nicaraguan territory. In addition, a Pentagon official declared that AC-130 gunships are "the last thing we'd want to fly over Nicaragua," since the aircraft are less well equipped for reconnaissance missions than other spy planes and because use of the gunships would be a major provocation for the Sandinistas...
...would be a major first step. Not all students want to see the Dead, nor would any be forced to do so. But that is not the point, The Dead concert would open the door to more concerts and more events. Future concerts will surely range full circuit from AC-DC to Barry Manilow...
...next visitors arrived in the pre-dawn light with all the thunder of rapid-fire U.S. Cobra and AC-130 helicopter gunships, Air Force C-5A and C-130 troop transports, and the supersonic boom of jet fighters. Two airports, one operational and the other being built, were much on their minds...
Apparently, organizers from the two groups up with the seperately and failed to get together, Scion surface the spirit to the ideological bonnet of students behind the "Opponents" group--most of whom ac allied with the campus branch of the Spartans Youth League. The clubs even filed for recognition using the same name, but one secured rights to the "Business" label because they filed first, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...