Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK: Harvard snagged a 24-21 come-from-behind victory over Army, largely thanks to Michael Dixon's 75-yard Interception touchdown return. Cornell dropped an aerial shootout to Cincimnati...
...that very fact has made the MNF a target for the many Lebanese factions determined to bring down Gemayel. Already, five U.S. Marines, 17 French troops and one Italian have been killed; 43 Americans, 41 French and 27 Italians have been wounded. As American naval shelling and French aerial strikes against guerrilla positions in the Chouf Mountains last week illustrated, Washington and Paris will not let their troops become sitting ducks...
...this aerial skirmishing seldom clear commercial aircraft Moscow requires advance notification and approval before any Western aircraft can traverse Soviet airspace. All passenger planes are tracked carefully by radar to ensure that they stick to specific and often very narrow air corridors, which twist and turn around militarily sensitive areas. As some navigational maps warn, the penalty for straying off course can be fatal. Planes flying from Scandinavia dare not approach Moscow located the north, where secret Soviet missile-testing facilities are located...
...profoundly and articulately wary of the Soviet Union than any other national Democrat. Last week Jackson was recovering at home from a chest cold picked up during a trip to China, but on Thursday morning, he shrugged it off and drove into Seattle to talk to reporters about the aerial atrocity. It was "an act of barbarism," he said, and could have been planned in advance...
...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...