Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...orange fireball lights up the night sky over Paris. Blown apart by 20 . sticks of dynamite, a 42-ton Airbus A300 carrying 177 people and 15 tons of highly inflammable jet fuel disintegrates and rains burning debris over the capital. Within minutes, parts of the city are in flames -- the devastating conclusion to a suicidal act of terror by four young Algerians...
Still using pilot Delhemme to speak for them, the hijackers broke radio silence at 6 a.m. to demand 27 tons of fuel and permission to fly to Paris. Since the trip normally requires only 10 tons, French officials feared the militants had other plans. One possibility was that they would head for a friendly Islamic country -- perhaps Iran, or Sudan, or Yemen; another that they were scheming to blow up the fuel-laden plane over the capital...
Some of the volatile markets that we supply with the most modern, destructive weaponry include the Middle East and East Asia. Many of the nations in these areas are leaning towards religious fundamentalism, political instability or aggressive expansionism. U.S. military contractors are also helping to fuel an arms race between historical enemies Greece and Turkey. Although the U.S. currently supplies many nations with arms, there is no shortage of ruthless dictators or despotic regimes eager to buy weapons, either for foreign conquest or more likely, for internal conflicts and political oppression...
...mountain roads are choked with snow. Foul weather would blind many of NATO's frontline aircraft, taking away NATO's technological superiority. Everything will be complicated by the cold. Troops will have to be clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards that can blind pilots...
...other developments in the industry last week added fuel to passenger concern, this time about small airlines that fly large planes. Kiwi International Air Lines, an upstart carrier formed by laid-off airline workers, suspended flights for a time after FAA inspectors raised questions about its pilot-training records. And at New York's Kennedy Airport, the FBI disclosed that it was investigating sabotage in the electrical wiring of several jumbo jets belonging to Tower...