Word: mostar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young hobbyists had almost completed their project when a Yugoslav civilian spotted them standing in the bushes outside a busy military airfield at Mostar, looking at the planes with binoculars. He called the police, who promptly arrested them and charged them with espionage. Curtis and Mason, police said, also had in their possession a large telescope, a shortwave radio capable of monitoring aircraft communications and a tape recorder. They also had several notebooks full of data about Yugoslavia's airfields, which were being used by Soviet planes to fly supplies to Syria and Egypt during the Middle East...