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...arrival in Damascus, the airliner circled overhead for more than an hour while Syrian leaders discussed French and Dutch requests that the plane be allowed to land. Permission was finally granted for "human reasons," and the plane taxied to an isolated part of the airfield. After an hour of negotiations, the terrorists disembarked to be taken to an undisclosed location...
Early one Saturday morning, at an airfield near Boston. The sky is gray and threatening rain; humidity is high and everyone watches the weather uncomfortably. Only a few drivers and officials have arrived by the scheduled starting time...
...Friday, in a policy change, I was authorized to send military aircraft to Lajes, where the supplies our planes would carry could be transferred to Israeli aircraft flying into a civilian airfield on another island. Logistically, the transshipment would have been a nightmare. We still did not have the permission of Portugal. That night I was in bed when Dr. Kissinger called about midnight. He was highly distressed about the military developments in the Middle East. I got dressed and came to the Pentagon immediately. At 2:30 a.m. I decided that there was no other alternative than...
...commit ted 700 heavy artillery pieces and 300 tracked vehicles, including T-54 and T-55 heavy tanks; it has built a network of strategically important roads running from the Demilitarized Zone in the North to within 100 miles of Saigon. It also has refurbished twelve former U.S. airfields and set up SA-2 missile sites around the former U.S. Marine airfield at Khe Sanh. Though Saigon's forces have acquitted themselves well in com bat in the past year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing...
Ugly Scene. One reason that Tanaka's arrival was delayed until darkness was the announced intention of student groups to give him a fiery welcome. Ten students broke through the tight cordon and were caught on the airfield just before Tanaka's arrival. A powerful array of riot police and troops in battle dress saw to it that Indonesian President Suharto and his guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay...