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...most intriguing exhibits were blurry "low light" television footage taken from U.S. AC-130 reconnaissance aircraft off the Salvadoran coast. According to General Paul Gorman, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, one series of images showed a Nicaraguan "mother ship" unloading crates into small seagoing canoes. The canoes then speed toward shore near El Salvador's Lempa River, where the cargo was packed onto mules and taken inland. To novice viewers, the film sequence resembled nothing more than a series of large and small white blobs. Gorman insisted, however, that the film showed only about...
...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...