Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towering names that could have been included here are not, either because they are mentioned elsewhere in this issue or because their appearances occurred in particularly news-heavy years. (TIME'S cover story on Stravinsky, for example, came out in 1948, the year that also brought the Berlin airlift and the creation of Israel.) In addition, only one representative has been chosen for each of half a dozen different arts. The The names that survived these tests all made news that stayed news...
...support troops helped to airlift Honduran soldiers to an area near the Nicaraguan border and to construct a new military base...
...destination of the clandestine shipment: the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. For the U.S., the discovery constituted welcome proof that leftist Central American insurgencies are being abetted from outside the hemisphere. Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil Ernesto Gutierrez implausibly said that his government knew nothing about the contents of the airlift...
...history of the past 40 years-West German schoolbooks have tended to skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even naively perceived as a fading and largely unnecessary relic...
...letter to Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who called for the GAO investigation, Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci argued that the Pentagon's decision to buy the C-5B "was based on a careful analysis of our airlift needs." Indeed, experts predict that the joint congressional committee responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp...