Word: air
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with NATO leaders Thursday could not be implemented before the air campaign was halted...
Though the U.S. military had imposed a minimum flight altitude limit of 2,000 feet for planes flying out of the Aviano air base, and though the plane flew much lower than that (the pilot said the altitude gauge had malfunctioned), ?one of the things that came out of this accident was the crew?s assertion that they had never heard of the 2,000-feet limit,? says Thompson. The Pentagon, which now relies heavily on Aviano for NATO's Kosovo campaign, has since redoubled its efforts to ensure that safety guidelines for pilots in Italy are made clear...
...Pocket camera which might have undeveloped shots from the summit. The "Nova" production will be the most recent in a string of Everest-related media events, including the highly-acclaimed "Everest" Omnimax film and Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of a 1996 disaster on the mountain, Into Thin Air. Few of us can get enough of the myth and stories of the often painful reality surrounding the world's tallest mountain. The hype has even extended to the Web, where the site everest.mountainzone.com is sponsoring the expedition and selling "Mallory/Irvine" commemorative t-shirts. It's all a little surreal...
...second semester reading period. Spring fever is in the air, and we lucky Harvard students have two weeks to relax and enjoy the warm weather. What could be better than Frisbee in the Yard or sunning on the MAC quad--not to mention the opportunity to redeem oneself by catching up on all that reading not done in the last three months? By the time finals come around, we'll all be incredibly well-studied and might even have great tans to boot...
...raising pressure inside the alliance to halt the bombing. "The U.S. won't want to halt the bombing easily, especially now that the Pentagon feels it's beginning to move in their favor," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Once halted, it will be extremely difficult to restart the air campaign." And NATO commanders will be reluctant to give up their only leverage over Belgrade this early in the endgame...