Word: craft
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From Illinois' Scott Air Force Base, the Military Airlift Command dispatched C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules cargo craft to carry ambulances, trucks, tents and even a mobile hospital to the refugee centers. Field kitchens, showers and 27 tons of C rations were flown in. Carter yielded to the plea of Florida Governor Bob Graham and the state's Congressmen and declared a state of emergency in Southern Florida. That will enable local authorities to be repaid from federal funds for their emergency help to the refugees. The President also made $10 million available from a refugee...
Beckwith went to the overall on-site commander, Air Force Colonel James Kyle, and asked him to take a look at the ailing chopper. "Let's confirm this," Beckwith said. "I want to make sure." When Kyle climbed down from the critical craft to report that it was indeed useless, Beckwith said last week, his own reaction was immediate: "Sir, my recommendation is that we abort." The commander gave Beckwith a chance to change his mind, asking "Would you consider taking five and going ahead? Think about it before you answer me. You're the guy that...
...grant political asylum; except for those definitely proved to be dangerous criminals, all will almost certainly be permitted to stay. The State Department also announced that owners of the refugee boats could be liable for a $1,000 fine for each refugee ferried. In addition, it warned, their craft could be seized and held until the penalties were paid. But even this policy was enforced unevenly: though written notices representing millions in fines were handed out to dozens of captains by week's end, only three vessels were seized. Skippers remained undeterred...
...even greater disappointment was in store for many of those who finally reached Mariel. Havana assigned only a handful of officials to log in the arriving boats and another handful to collect each craft's list of desired relatives. Typically, a boat had to wait several days for a first encounter with a government launch, and days more for its passengers...
...miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games and the Cuban favorite, dominoes. To provide for the boatmen's diminishing supplies, the port had set up floating stores with exorbitant prices: a take-out chicken dinner cost $30, a bottle of Scotch...