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...airspace over northeastern El Salvador, U.S. OV-1B MOhawk and RU-21J Beechcraft reconnaissance aircraft based in nearby Palmerola, Honduras, are conducting discreet surveillance missions. The flights, manned by pilots from the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, have been under way since last month. Supplementing similar missions by longer-range RC-130 reconnaissance aircraft from Howard Air Force Base in Panama, the flights are intended to help fend off an anticipated increase in guerrilla activity as the March 25 election approaches. For the Reagan Administration, the Honduras-based forays have another advantage: they do not violate the self-imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Making Martial Noises | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...carriers. Last year, for example, it hauled 875 carloads of water-purification chemicals that used to travel by truck from a Du Pont plant in Delaware. Conrail also snagged a fuel-hauling contract from Lake Ontario barge operators and moved 6,583 carloads of fuel oil for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conrail for Sale | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...more private haunts. But at 7:30 p.m., Bergvall is once more in the departmental library, this time to lead a review section on syntax for General Education 109; "Language and Human Nature." The previous night, she spent three hours working with a student on the fine points of Mohawk syntax. Tonight, though, it is only an hour, as the students ready for a midterm and have mostly technical questions...

Author: By Dean R. Madden, | Title: A Scholar's World | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

This time Rocky, who whipped Creed to take the title in II, announces his retirement, feeling he can no longer give the sport his best shot. From the crowd on the museum steps jumps the Mohawk-coiffed, feather-bedecked Clubber Lang (played by Newcomer Mr. T, a.k.a. Lawrence Tero). The top contender harangues the champ with an intensity from somewhere beyond Muhammad Ali, demanding a title shot. Mickey, who has coached Rocky's career from the beginning, tells the fighter the awful truth: his title defenses have been against opponents he could easily whip. Lang, he suggests, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...statement in your Cinema review that the villain Wez is "Apache-coiffed" is wrong. The hair style in question might have been seen on a Mohawk, one of the five tribes of the Iroquois Nation, but never on any self-respecting Apache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1982 | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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