Word: airstrips
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...struck by a car near his home; in Oak Brook, Ill. Butler, an expert pilot, founded Butler Aviation in 1946 to provide fuel and service for private aircraft in airports across the country. An avid sportsman, he once maintained 3,000 acres in Oak Brook, comprising an airstrip, riding stables, a golf course and 13 polo fields...
...isolated cays-at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago-that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots have become notorious among yachtsmen, including Norman Cay, just 30 miles from Pipe Cay. Norman Cay is four miles long and has an airstrip and marina. The key was once a happy watering hole for passing sailors, but it has been declared off limits to them by a new owner. Bahamian authorities raided Norman Cay last January, arrested 30 people and seized an undisclosed quantity of cocaine and marijuana...
...paratroopers are to seize an airstrip 10 km from the jump site so that, in a real war, thousands more could fly in aboard transport planes. On the way, they will engage two companies of "Aggressors," played by other units from the 82nd Airborne and the Air Force...
...soccer field. In the last stage of the assault, the hostages (by now joined by the three from the Foreign Ministry) and the 90 commandos would all leave in the four choppers. They would join the C-130s, which would have flown from Oman, at yet another airstrip, "Desert Two." There the choppers would be abandoned, and everyone would fly to safety in the transport planes...
...Brad Dourif) as she looks on. One's mind reels merely in contemplation of the efforts it no doubt took to get the scene past the network's censors. In Part 2, things get going when Congressman Leo Ryan (Beatty) arrives to investigate the Peoples Temple. The airstrip murders and subsequent mass suicides are as graphic as one can stomach...