Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built airstrip at Retalhuleu, at Guatemala City and at Guatemala's San José airbase...
...solidly with the Communists on a series of key votes- Red China, the Congo, Cuba. He had a private huddle with Nikita Khrushchev, who amiably promised Hassan anything he wanted. The first down payment: twelve MIG-17 jet fighters and two MIG-15 trainers now based on a Moroccan airstrip just 15 miles from Nouasseur, the biggest U.S. overseas air base (scheduled to be given up in 1963). At last count, some 39 Soviet technicians were tending to the MIGs...
...bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle...
Last week the Communists talked Laos' neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma (whom they still recognize as the "legitimate" Premier of Laos, though he was deposed three months ago by the National Assembly) into flying into a small airstrip on the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres in north-central Laos. Tearfully, Prince Souvanna embraced Captain Kong Le, the rebels' chief fighting man, and Prince Souphanouvong, who happens to be Prince Souvanna's own half brother as well as the political leader of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souvanna forthwith dismissed the King's plan as "facetious and devoid...
Last week, while the attention of the world (and the Laotian army) was diverted by the supposed invasion from North Viet Nam, Russian Ilyushins slipped into a newly bulldozed airstrip at Vang Vieng, picked up Kong Le, 400 of his men and about 300 tons of supplies and dropped the whole load on the strategic Plaine des Jarres, a broad plateau that commands north central Laos (see map). Kong Le's first step was to capture an airstrip to handle the Ilyushins. Next he captured the town of Xiengkhouang...