Word: airstrip
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...descent to Khost's dirt airstrip is gut wrenching, a series of dizzying circles, jigs and S-turns as once again the planes pop flares in rapid succession. Last week Soviet-built government transports delivered 60 journalists from India, the Soviet bloc and the West on a propaganda tour aimed at dispelling "rumors" of intense fighting in the area. Unfortunately, the tight security around the reporters only betrayed the government's fear of the guerrillas. Soviet-made Mi-24 helicopter gunships whirred protectively overhead, sweeping across the surrounding terrain. From a distance came the echoes of explosions...
...official ties may be tightened as Lewis Tambs, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, is asked about working with North to get Costa Rica to keep a secret contra airstrip operating. The CIA station chief in Costa Rica, recently identified as Joseph Fernandez, will be quizzed about the contras and which of his CIA superiors was aware of his activities...
...lifeline begins at a camp at a hidden airstrip along the Nicaraguan- Honduran border. From there, goods are piled into motor-driven dugouts and shipped down the Bocay to remote supply points. Much of the traffic goes through a hilltop base deep inside the jungle. Armed guards are posted outside the facility, which is little more than a day's march from the fighting in central Jinotega. At the base, located some 25 miles inside Nicaragua, boxes of ammunition and mortar rounds are secured beneath camouflaged tarpaulins, and a radio operator maintains static-filled contact with forces...
...single barracks. The invasion of Grenada did little to burnish the Corps's fabled reputation as the "first to fight." Owing to the demands of interservice glory sharing, only 36 minutes after the Marines landed at Pearls airport, the rival Army Rangers parachuted onto the airstrip at the other end of the island at Point Salines. It was a successful operation, and the Marines did themselves proud, but it raised questions about their unique role as the nation's elite amphibious strike force. And fairly or not, the Iranian arms fiasco has been partly associated with the gung-ho "Marine...
...battles at Ouadi-Doum and Faya-Largeau handed Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi one of the most ignominious defeats of his 18-year rule. State-run Chadian radio hailed the capture of the 12,500-ft. airstrip at Ouadi-Doum as the "beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...