Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb that landed harmlessly in a muddy field. It was the Honduran capital's first taste of the tragic and senseless miniwar that erupted last week between Honduras and El Salvador. At two points along the ill-defined border, Salvadoran troops pushed into Honduras, and the small air force of each country flew raids against military and industrial targets. After five days of fighting, the Organization of American States managed to impose an uneasy ceasefire...
...final soccer game was prudently transferred to the neutral ground of Mexico City. When Salvador won, the Hondurans were outraged. In an outburst of machismo, they sent an air force plane streaking across the skies of El Salvador. The Hondurans may well have looked on the flight as only a bit of face-saving muscle flexing, but the Salvadorans regarded it as a grave provocation. They decided to launch a preventive...
...Air Attacks. As Salvador's old C-47 unloaded its bomb on the Honduran capital, six World War II-vintage Mustangs, which comprise the bulk of El Salvador's air force, hit several Honduran garrison towns. Next morning, Hondurans wheeled out its eleven old, fold-wing Corsairs and sent them to bomb Esso oil tanks at two Salvadoran ports, Acajutla and Cutuco...
...waters." Built on a group of mud islands and reinforced only by ancient wooden piles and wattles, Venice has always been a sinking city. In recent years, however, in addition to losing ground at an ever faster rate, it has been attacked by the pestilence of modern cities-air pollution. As a result, the city and its treasures are now in greater danger than ever before...
...city's air has also become destructive. Venetians customarily heat their homes with soft coal that is released into the air before it has fully burned. Added to this are similar fuel wastes from vaporetti (ferryboats) exhausts and industrial smokestacks. The combined residues, often trapped by the damp Venetian climate, form a heavy sulfurous blanket over the city...