Word: airporters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students journey home to warm beds and turkey, many have to make it from the Square to Logan Airport before heading to their final destination...
...shuttle will face stiff competition today from the council, which has arranged for a fleet of buses to take students to the airport between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. today for just one dollar...
Traditionally, the council has operated airport shuttles before the Thanksgiving, winter and spring holidays...
What they would do was vague: "facilitate" delivery of food and the voluntary repatriation of the refugees. How they would do that was equally unspecified. About 1,000 U.S. troops would take over the airport at Goma, the Zairean city nearest the fighting, held by Zairean Tutsi rebels. They would open a three-mile corridor between Goma and the Rwanda border to protect refugees walking home--though the border is in fact only a few hundred yards away. An additional 2,000 or 3,000 Americans would go to Rwanda and Uganda to airlift in supplies and the other...
...this was the plan, it had some sizable holes in it. Mugunga was nine miles farther into Zaire than the airport at Goma. Those inside Mugunga could not leave because they were being held in place by militant Hutu militias. And the camp was under siege by ethnic Tutsi rebels from Zaire, probably assisted by the Tutsi-led government of Rwanda. Another huge portion of refugees was presumed to be scattered in Zaire's forests. If Canadian, American, French, British and other soldiers simply sat on the tarmac in Goma, how would food ever reach the people who needed...