Word: airport
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...next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground missiles -- one of the few aerial bombardments on the European continent since World...
...Slovenia had hoped to use its bold declaration of independence as a negotiating card, by week's end the republic had its stalwart performance to buttress resolve. The Yugoslav army, by contrast, will have much to explain. The use of missiles on Ljubljana's airport seemed excessive, given the purported objective of restricting access to Slovenia. More inexplicable still, Yugoslav jets fired on civilian trucks and reportedly entered Austrian airspace...
Back in 1972, when Tom Root returned from Vietnam as a 21-year-old Army corporal, he hid in an airport bathroom wishing he could change into civilian clothes before running the gauntlet of war protesters. When he and his Illinois National Guard unit returned from the gulf last month, the parade stretched 13 miles along an Illinois interstate. "The response of the community was overwhelming," he says. "We were not prepared for the homecoming...
...council's $275 publicity list includes shuttlebus service to the airport, a modest calendar change resulting in two extra days of intersession, and a number of milk-and-cookies study breaks. And although council members claim that students have benefited from these services, they concede that Harvard's undergraduate student government has not served as a form for student opinions and concerns...
...fact, both men were at the house, and a servant later told investigators that Barry and the Senator conferred in the kitchen right after the police left. Police say that when they phoned an hour later, a housekeeper told them Barry had taken the Senator and Smith to the airport. Yet Kennedy did not depart until the next...