Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TERRITORY CONTROLLED by clan militias and trigger-happy bandits, the first armed U.N. forces arrived in Somalia to guard relief shipments. U.S. planes flew in 60 troops, the advance team from a 500-man Pakistani battalion expected to arrive this week. Their initial assignment will be to secure the airport and harbor of Mogadishu, the capital, so food supplies can flow safely...
...prepared for my trip here this fall, I recalled my first visit to Boston, in the 1970's, at the height of the school busing crisis here. the Boston Globe's front page greeted me at Logan Airport with the photo of a suit-and tie-wearing Black man being impaled by a white man wielding a flag pole supporting Old Glory...
...United Nations troops on duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina needed was another lesson in what a thankless task they face. They got one anyway, when two French soldiers were killed and five more injured as their convoy, carrying supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people who are enormously upset...
...third time this year, the elected President of a former Soviet republic has been forced out of office by a popular uprising. Rebel militiamen in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, seized President Rakhmon Nabiyev as he drove to the airport and forced him at gunpoint to sign a formal resignation. Nabiyev, the longtime communist boss of Tajikistan, won almost 60% of the vote in a presidential election last November. Fighting broke out between Nabiyev's supporters and his rivals, a coalition of democratic and Islamic groups, and in recent weeks the clashes turned into civil...
When Rudenstine returned to Boston, a welcoming party of about 40 union members greeted him at the airport, playing "Hail to the Chief" on kazoos...