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...maneuver. By the end of the day the little airport, which normally handles only a dozen civilian airliners a week, had begun to look like a military airbase. Parked next to the jets on the runway apron were half a dozen Transall military freighters and a C-135F aerial refueling plane, together with five fighter aircraft from Zaire. "Operation Manta," as the government of President Francis Mitterrand had code-named France's challenge to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's ambitions in Chad, was beginning to acquire some sting...
Some states are reluctant to use the herbicide as an aerial spray because of the chance that it will drift, contaminating nearby crops and livestock. Federal officials claim that the isolation of national forest lands, plus the | containment factor provided by a helicopter's downdraft, minimizes that risk. Others disagree. Says Jay Feldman, head of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides: "There is no aerial application that doesn't involve drift...
...forward garrisons. Combat helicopters swung low over the Chari River, beside the capital, and heavily laden trucks moved out of the French military camp near the airport. The French troops were being equipped with both antiaircraft and antitank missiles so that they could be ready for either an aerial attack or a ground assault. At the same time, U.S. C-141s flew into N'Djamena carrying Jeeps, artillery and other supplies promised by President Reagan two weeks...
...fighting resumed. There was also evidence that France was prepared to bring in its own planes if the Libyans should attack. Four French Jaguar fighter-bombers were standing by in the Central African Republic's capital of Bangui, 600 miles south of N'Djamena, along with two aerial tankers that would enable the Jaguars to be refueled in midair...
...variety of labors that the new adventurers think up for themselves these days is rich and nutty and, in contemplation, forms a splendid fruitcake of the hu man spirit. Mighty aerial voyages are undertaken in planes as fragile as moths, and transatlantic crossings are made in sailboats only marginally longer than their pilots. There are specialists in climbing frozen waterfalls and skiing slopes too steep to stand on, and in exploring underwater, with scuba gear, caves so deep that helium must be mixed with the oxygen that is breathed, to forestall nitrogen narcosis. A couple of canoeists have just lined...