Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation, which followed several devastating Rhodesian air attacks on other ZAPU camps in Zambia last week, began before dawn. A white-led force of Rhodesia's Special Air Service (SAS) commandos and black troops from the elite Selous Scouts slipped into Zambia, apparently by helicopter. The raiders attacked a military post near the border, commandeered several camouflaged Land Rovers and set out for Lusaka, 62 miles away. At about 3 a.m. they arrived in Woodlands, a section of Lusaka where Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, several foreign diplomats and Nkomo maintain their homes. The Rhodesians killed Nkomo...
...faced Botha told South Africans that a twin-engine Beechcraft turboprop used by U.S. Am bassador William B. Edmondson had been "converted for use as a spy plane by the installation of an aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some of our most sensitive installations." Botha's disclosures seemed designed both to embarrass the Carter Administration at a time when the U.S. is pressing South Africa to accept a United Nations...
Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year...
Thousands of TB patients sought out mountain air and were put on regimens of nutritious food. Chest X rays helped spot infected patches of lung. Finally, with the development of such drugs as streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis seemed on the way to being vanquished...
Unlike their 19th century predecessors, today's doctors rarely see the disease; medical schools do not stress it. A 1977 study at Scott Air Force Base revealed that of 130 patients referred there for TB, 73 had been misdiagnosed or given inadequate therapy by their original physician...