Word: airdrops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What I write about," he later explained, "is not war but the courage of man." Stricken with cancer in 1970, Ryan waged his own last battle against recurrent pain to complete A Bridge Too Far, a history of the disastrous 1944 airdrop at Arnhem, which was No. 2 on the bestseller lists when he died. ∎ Died. Rosemary Lane, 58, Hollywood's "Betty Coed" of the 1930s; of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show...
...mile TanZam railway, which Tanzania and neighboring Zambia are building with the help of a $406 million interest-free loan from China. Only one thing marred the festivities: a raid on Dar es Salaam by two mysterious planes that showered the capital with antigovernment leaflets. The airdrop was thought to have been organized by supporters of a renegade politician, Oscar Kambona, who has lived in exile in London since...