Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of cholera cases has dropped by half, but that dysentery -- a contagious, bloody diarrhea that is much harder to treat -- has more than made up for the decline. U.S. Army convoys delivered 100,000 gallons of fresh water, a triumph over a bottleneck at Goma's tiny airport, but far short of the 1.25 million gallons needed daily to meet the refugees' basic needs...
...shores of a lovely lake, tucked amid banana groves and thick woodlands in the shadow of a spectacular volcano that lit the northern sky at night. The town was home to 80,000 residents; now it has more than a million sick and starving newcomers. Outside the airport, a sign extols The Pleasure of Traveling...
...wasting corpses, but twisted wrecks of crushed skulls and flaking blood. A Tutsi woman is accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps. No one bothers to cover his body. There is no time to count the dead, much less bury all of them...
...World Food Program was able to fly four loaded planes into Goma during the first desperate weekend. But two more relief planes were turned back because of mortar fire, and, unimaginably, a strike by Zaire air traffic controllers arguing with the French over who had responsibility for running the airport. Zairian officials were demanding bribes for landing rights, and blocked some relief flights so that commercial planes could continue to use the airport...
...ideas for mutual development. A $3 billion canal could be dredged linking the Dead Sea with the Red Sea. The natural 1,300-ft. drop in altitude could power turbines, and the electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...