Word: airlift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British regiment scheduled for deployment next month to protect aid convoys; a reconnaissance group was pinned down by cross fire there on Tuesday. Shelling in Kiseljak, directly under the flight approach to Sarajevo, was so fierce by Wednesday that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees halted its vital airlift to the capital, then gingerly started up again the next...
...regard myself as a German," Brandt later wrote. When his citizenship was restored in 1948, Brandt went to work as an aide to Ernst Reuter, the colorful mayor of West Berlin, and from that vantage point witnessed the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of the city and the Berlin airlift that saved...
...transmit color images directly from the debate, among them the cover photo. By 12:30 a.m. the pictures were beamed via satellite to eight printing plants around the country, including our facility in Saratoga Springs, New York, where a fleet of four twin-engine planes was waiting to airlift the magazines to major cities for early Monday morning arrival. In addition, dozens of extra trucks were hired to speed delivery to our wholesale distributors...
...back them up, the U.S. stationed four warships carrying helicopters and 2,100 Marines off the coast of Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman said the force was there only to support the airlift of the Pakistani troops. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen insisted the U.S. "has no intention of landing a Marine expedition...
...Somalian hinterland, U.S. cargo planes continued an airlift that has delivered more than 3,000 tons of food to remote villages since Aug. 28. But last week flights to one town, Belet Huen, were suspended after a plane was hit by a bullet...