Word: airfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggressor battalion has pushed a company to within three miles of Camp Wilson," said Colonel A.J. Brosco, 43, a criminal lawyer from Providence, R.I. "Give me the file marked confidential," he said to a captain. "Aerial photos taken this morning indicate a SAM location and a rudimentary airfield." "Excuse me, sir," warned a crew-cut major, "we just got a report that something is moving on the left flank. It could be pretty sticky...
...Kissinger arrived in the city that the U.S. had so recently bombed. His blue and white presidential 707 was forced to land at a military airbase well outside the city because the runway at Hanoi's Gia Lam airport is too short. The area surrounding Hanoi's airfield is leveled, and many bridges are still out. The 30-minute motorcade of curtained black Russian sedans had to cross a plank-covered steel pontoon bridge over the Red River to enter Hanoi...
...cover: South Vietnamese woman holding flags in preparation for truce; Le Due Tho and Kissinger after initialing in Paris; U.S. airman tossing helmet at Tan Son Nhut airfield, South Viet Nam, after cease-fire news; P.O.W. wife Margaret Lengyel...
...officials presented a quite different picture of the bombing. A communique released by the U.S. military authorities in Saigon ticked off in businesslike fashion the targets American planes had been after: airfields, shipyards, railyards, warehouses, power plants, communication towers, truck parks, and SAM and antiaircraft installations. The report stated that dozens of these targets were destroyed or heavily damaged-the Phuc Yen airfield was bombed, the Hanoi port facility on the Red River hit hard, "all buildings" in the Haiphong petroleum-product storage area were struck, and the Thai Nguyen thermal power plant was virtually wiped out, and on down...
...Christian Democrats, charged that the decision to release the prisoners was a "humiliation" for West Germany. Actually, Bonn was almost eager to hand over the three fedayeen; like political lightning rods, they have invited reprisals ever since the night they were captured in a gun battle at an airfield outside Munich...