Word: airstrip
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...economy raises other difficulties. Pol-e-chah (tea money or bribes and kickbacks) has traditionally added 10% to 15% to the cost of doing business. Now the tab has jumped. A group of Iranian air force officers are awaiting questioning about the building of a $100 million airstrip. According to a government audit, only one-third of the money actually went into construction...
...Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse fanatics swarm in by Cadillac and Continental Mark IV, jam the local airstrip with private jets, and fill every hotel room within a radius of 70 miles. Experience has taught the owners of bars and nightspots to hire armed guards to prevent gun fights...
After their ordeal, in the heat and uncertainty of life at Guam's Tent City, most of the refugees were only exhausted and played out. Like refugees anywhere, they spent their time sleeping, lying on their bunks, wandering aimlessly around the deserted airstrip that is now the main street of Tent City, always waiting. On their release for the States, a process that takes at least four or five days, the Vietnamese are left on the roadside to wait for buses to their flights, families sharing lines of cots stacked like beach chairs, sitting for hours under the scorching...
...government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours before government troops drove them...
...sapper attack before dawn on the command headquarters in the city caught many troops of the South Vietnamese 23rd Division sleeping in their homes. At the same time, elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division, which infiltrated into the area from Laos last month, attacked the city's airstrip...