Word: airfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer travel in the style to which he was long accustomed. Returning to Charleston after a business trip to Washington aboard a state-owned aircraft not long ago, Westmoreland found himself 18th in line for takeoff. "In the old days, I'd fly into a military airfield and they'd clear out everything a day ahead," he observed wryly. But the luster of his four stars still casts a glow. During a recent visit to a technical school in Denmark, S.C., Westmoreland found some of the students dressed in old combat jackets, their name tags still in place...
...recently, a real-life American hunter, Rifle Manufacturer Leo W. Roethe, narrowly escaped the same fate: his right leg was badly mauled by an attacking wounded male lion. Members of his party were able to radio the East African Flying Doctor Service, which dispatched a light plane to an airfield in the bush. The plane airlifted Roethe to a modern hospital in Nairobi, where he was patched up and sent home to Fort Atkinson, Wis., to regale friends and relatives with tales of his adventures...
...reach the accident victims quickly, the doctors rely on radio transmitters in 65 mission stations of all denominations located in the mountains, high plains and jungles that cover East Africa. Upon receiving a call, the service dispatches a plane to one of more than 300 airfields-some of them little more than dirt tracks-spotted around the countryside. Dr. Anne Spoerry, 55, a French-born general practitioner who pilots her own plane and has covered 336,000 miles since she joined the service in 1965, has had some peculiarly African experiences. On one flight, her plane collided with a vulture...
...young hobbyists had almost completed their project when a Yugoslav civilian spotted them standing in the bushes outside a busy military airfield at Mostar, looking at the planes with binoculars. He called the police, who promptly arrested them and charged them with espionage. Curtis and Mason, police said, also had in their possession a large telescope, a shortwave radio capable of monitoring aircraft communications and a tape recorder. They also had several notebooks full of data about Yugoslavia's airfields, which were being used by Soviet planes to fly supplies to Syria and Egypt during the Middle East...
...warrior. He removed his goggles, revealing the dark eyepatch that left no doubt about who the officer was. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan replied coyly: "That is, how you say, the $64,000 question." Dayan was relaxed, confident, even nonchalant as he met reporters on the tarmac of a small airfield in the Sinai. He gave the impression that the Israeli task force was not in any trouble, but he was not about to reveal how much havoc it had wreaked...