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...Anchorage and Fairbanks. The Government subsequently bought their land cheap ($100 an acre for cleared land, $75 for uncleared) but in so doing it changed their lives. By the time the road reached their area in 1967, Shorty Bradley had been dead a year and buried beside his private airfield. "We had a terrible time digging the grave because of the time of year," Marino recalls...
Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow his craft to put down at a U.S. military airfield could persuade Gromyko to overlook what he clearly regarded as an officially tolerated affront to Soviet dignity. In subsequent months, he demonstrated, by words and attitude, his own displeasure with...
...years the Reagan Administration has accused the Sandinistas of building a military airfield near Managua that could handle any combat plane in the Soviet arsenal. For two years the Sandinistas have dismissed the charge. But wait. Transportation Minister Carlos Zarruck last week acknowledged that an airport is indeed being constructed at Punta Huete, about 13 miles northeast of the capital. Zarruck insisted that the facility is designed primarily for civilian traffic, though he did not rule out a military role. He said that the project is entirely a Nicaraguan undertaking and that it should be finished in 1986. Administration sources...
...Cuban troops and civilians who were on Grenada during the U.S.-led invasion last October were expected to follow faithfully the words of their national anthem: "To die for your country is to live." Twenty-four Cuban civilians died defending an airfield they were building at Point Salines. But the commanding officer of Cuban troops on the island, Lieut. Colonel Pedro Tortoló, and 42 of his men managed to escape to the safety of the Soviet embassy...
...Some U.S.-built facilities have already fallen into disuse. One of them is a training facility at San Lorenzo on the Gulf of Fonseca, which separates Nicaragua and El Salvador. Temporary barracks built for U.S. personnel are being sold to the Honduran army, and a 7,500-foot dirt airfield is channeled with deep ruts that would almost, but not quite, prevent a C-130 transport from making a bumpy landing. Despite that handicap, according to one military source, Honduran airfields are adequate to bring the entire 15,000-man complement of the 82nd Airborne into the country...