Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Vietnamese have lengthened the old U.S. Marine airstrip at Khe Sanh from 4,000 ft. to 5,250 ft.-long enough to accommodate MIG-19 jets...
...sort of mini-Dunkirk, fishing boats transported most of the island's inhabitants to the mainland, where buses took them into Reykjavik. Hospital patients and the elderly were rescued by small planes and helicopters, which braved intense heat and volcanic ash to land at an airstrip only 200 yds. from the eruption. Within 3½ hours, everyone on Heimaey had been evacuated. About 200 police, firemen and rescue workers stayed behind to salvage what they could of Vestmannaey-jar, the island's only town and Iceland's most important fishing center. Miraculously, there were no casualties...
Acrobatics. In late October a member of the St. Petersburg city council asked the Times to prepare a pro-con page on a proposed runway extension to accommodate private jets at the city's small airstrip, an issue that was coming up for council consideration. The Times complied, presented reasons for and against the expansion, then opposed it editorially. Ultimately, the council approved the project, but at least the Times editorial page has begun to earn the kind of attention Pittman desired...
...clustered around the author after his return from Biafra eagerly asking after friends on the other side. In describing the psychology of the white mercenaries who fought for both the Nigerians and the Biafrans, De St. Jorre suggests the real reason the Nigerians never managed to destroy Uli airstrip -which remained Biafra's lifeline to the very end-was that the pilots hired by the Nigerians had a vested interest in keeping it, and thus the war, alive...
...time Barr reached the airfield, a doctor was on hand to confirm the break, and a nurse was standing by to accompany the patient on the flight to Chicago. Notified by radio, the Chicago fire department sent a helicopter to meet Barr's flying ambulance at a small airstrip on Chicago's outskirts and sped him to Wesley Memorial, where a team of doctors waited. Though paralyzed, Barr survived...