Word: aire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contractor based in Lancaster, N.Y., sold the Navy smoke-protection gear that the company knew did not work as intended. Since 1981 the Navy has purchased more than 450,000 of Scott's Emergency Escape Breathing Devices, hoodlike units that fit over the head and neck to provide breathable air while blocking the entry of toxic fumes. They are now used on virtually all naval vessels except submarines...
While both sides inflicted civilian casualties, the air attacks by the army appeared to take the highest toll. On the periphery of the capital, the poor neighborhoods believed to be rebel strongholds were repeatedly strafed by rockets and machine-gun fire from above. Some citizens alleged that bombs were indiscriminately dropped in residential areas. Cristiani countered that the government had authorized the use of bombs only where the army had isolated F.M.L.N. units and was reasonably sure civilians would not be injured. In many areas, citizens were forced to abandon their homes, creating a stream of tens of thousands...
Mostly, however, U.S. officials sought to downplay the crisis that had caught them so unprepared. But beneath the bravado, there were signs of unease. Officials who publicly condoned the Salvadoran military's air attacks privately conceded that there was no way to prevent them from causing civilian casualties. "There is a serious human rights situation developing," admitted one official...
...families say their quest for answers will persist until they learn who killed their relatives and how it was allowed to happen. Nor will they back down until air travel is made safer. "We are answering to our loved ones," says Ammerman. "We have all made a commitment not to stop until we satisfy that need." No one who has come up against them doubts the sincerity of that promise...
...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...