Word: airstrips
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...landed at a very fine airstrip at the town of Costermansville situated on Lake Kivu...The lake is one of the most beautiful that I have ever seen...It is certainly much more beautiful than Lago di Como and I am quite sure that it contains less dead bodies, of human beings at any rate. --Ernest Hemingway...
...along, the real action was taking place on a remote Georgia island. Cumberland is 18 miles long and accessible only by boat, unless you are brave enough to land a small plane on the grassy little airstrip, where horses tend to graze. The National Park Service owns a huge tract of land; a few very wealthy families and a handful of longtime residents own the rest. There is no telephone service; none of the roads are paved; and only the Park Service and full-time residents are allowed to have cars...
...millions. Yet evidence abounds of the Franklin Graham difference. In his office in Boone, North Carolina, are artifacts not associated with his father: the half-dozen military rifles mounted on the wall. A little way down the road stands his beloved Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Hangared at a nearby airstrip is the six-seat twin-turboprop Mitsubishi plane in which he logged 450 hours last year as a pilot. "If there's a machine or device that makes noise, goes fast and blows smoke," he has written, "I want to have one." Or at least...
...Tuzla airfield, ground crews will have little time to gripe. The former Yugoslav airstrip for fighter planes has only one runway, on which the outlines of filled-in holes created by Serb shelling can still be plainly seen. No matter: plans call for a U.S. cargo plane to land there every 20 minutes all day and eventually through the night. And only three planes can be on the ground at any time. Can this ambitious schedule...
...witnessed the secret burial of Marxist revolutionary and '60s icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara revealed for the first time where the guerrilla leader is buried. General Mario Vargas Salinas told a journalist that Guevara's body was interred by bulldozer, along with those of five other executed guerrillas, under an airstrip at Vallegrande, a Bolivian mountain town 150 miles southwest of Santa Cruz, shortly after Guevara's summary execution by firing squad on Oct. 9, 1967. His final words, according to the general: "Shoot, coward! You are going to kill...