Word: dasht
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir...
...mission. Said the Senator: "The whole thing has heavy political overtones." The Senator concluded from his private briefing that the mission was one of high risk and that "no one would have done it who was not running for the presidency." Looking ahead at the political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir, the Senator added: "My guess is that we are going to hear a lot of rumbles from this...