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...battery has been roaming around and targeting incoming planes for weeks?hence the southern approach, coming in above a stretch of remote desert that is patrolled by coalition forces. When we land, the HC-130 doesn't even pause long enough to stop its four propellers. It dumps a cargo of Air Force engineers, some electrical wiring and tents, and takes off in a hurry...
...trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop...
...rich rewards, U.S. companies are assembling detailed information, like the precise measurements of bridges spanning Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the event the structures need to be replaced following U.S. bombing, and the number and type of cranes that could be damaged in Iraq's Persian Gulf cargo ports...
...admits that the first training class--whenever it gets under way--will have only 48 pilots. The TSA also says it has no money for any classes after that. Mica plans to keep the pressure on. He has introduced a bill to close one loophole and arm pilots of cargo planes too. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...planner at the Pentagon preparing for war--figuring how to move a flotilla of cargo vessels from San Francisco to the Persian Gulf, worrying whether there's enough shrink-wrap at the port in Jacksonville, Fla., to protect the AH-64 Apache gunships and Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters you've just started to fly there from Fort Campbell, Ky.--there's one thing you always want to keep in the back of your mind. And that is the state of the night sky. The U.S. Air Force likes to begin its bombing campaigns on moonless nights, and in Iraq...