Word: airfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looms up out of the cactus and tumbleweed like a vast tombstone: a sprawling airplane hangar, 60,000 sq. ft., large enough to house a 747, edging up to the shimmering tarmac of a remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once...
...ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear bombers patrol the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida...
...waters. Seven other Soviet warships are nearby in the Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties among Soviet technicians that man the antiaircraft areas. Nonetheless, both Secretary of State George Shultz, who has long yearned to "put Gaddafi back in his box," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
Displaying a map of the region and an airfield photo from Nicaragua, the President charged members of the ruling Sandinista regime with selling illegal drugs to Americans, using their country as a terrorist command post and threatening the security of the Western alliance by seeking to spread revolution through Central America to the Panama Canal...
Point Salines airfield was the focus of the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency...