Word: cargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither team will be allowed inside the other's missile factories, but each can station round-the-clock monitors to inspect cargo at the exits and perimeter. In addition, each country will be allowed to make 20 surprise visits to suspected weapons facilities during the first three years of the treaty, 15 during the next five years and ten annually in the remaining five years. U.S. officials will be able to fly into Moscow or Irkutsk, and Soviets into Washington or San Francisco, without advance notice of the site to be inspected...
Through the parched Eritrean highlands in northern Ethiopia, 25 trucks rumbled along a rough, winding road. Their cargo: 674 metric tons of food, enough to feed 30,000 people for a month, destined for drought victims in the provinces of Eritrea and Tigre...
...bomber is designed to deliver its deadly cargo at low altitude, following the contours of the ground to avoid being detected by radar. But last week the controversialplane proved vulnerable to a natural enemy when a B-1B crashed after running into a flock of birds...
...Army crews in the high-tech helicopters had used infrared vision- enhancing gear to watch the Iranians rolling their explosive cargo into the sea. Under questioning, some of the sailors admitted what they were doing and even told where they had dropped the lethal charges. U.S. Navy SEALs (sea, air and land commandos) who boarded the vessel found charts detailing the mine- laying scheme. This helped the Navy locate and disarm seven other mines that the Iran Ajr had dropped into the sea-lanes...
...Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April 1980 because of a helicopter malfunction at the landing site, and one chopper crashed into a cargo plane...