Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army claimed it was a tragic accident. On Nov. 7 a planeload of narcotics agents from the Mexican Attorney General's office landed at a clandestine airstrip in hot pursuit of a plane from Colombia that stopped to refuel -- and turned out to contain more than 814 lbs. of cocaine. When the Mexican narcs emerged, more than 100 soldiers already on the ground opened fire, killing seven of the agents...
...marks the government's second major effort to force miners off Yanomami lands. In May troops blew up 14 landing strips and drove out all but 8,000 of the 40,000 invaders. No sooner had the soldiers left, however, than the garimpeiros returned and rebuilt some of the airstrips. Says Joao Carlos Nicolli, regional administrator of the federal Indian agency: "The big gold lords weren't touched in the first operation. It was a show for the foreigners." He thinks the government is more serious this time. One sign: troops destroyed an airstrip belonging to Jose Altino Machado...
...tourist pressure has been building for years. Today some 30,000 visitors a year come to Mount Sinai. Most arrive in buses from Cairo or else take a twice weekly Air Sinai flight that lands at an airstrip built by the Israelis during their occupation. If the Egyptian government's plans go according to projections, some 565,000 tourists -- an almost 1,800% increase -- will arrive every year. What is wrong with that? That part of the Sinai is a wilderness populated mostly by Bedouins and the 17 Greek Orthodox monks at St. Catherine's monastery. Egypt urgently needs hard...
...open-air pit. The waters right off the station are reportedly more polluted with substances such as heavy metals and PCBs than any similar stretch of water in the U.S. Greenpeace has also documented reckless dumping and burning at Soviet, Uruguayan, Argentine, Chilean and Chinese bases. And an airstrip under construction at France's Dumont d'Urville base has already leveled part of an Adelie-penguin rookery...