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...Baathist from the movement's romantic early days. Though Al-Bakr retired to his Baghdad home, he constantly plotted against the Arefs. One abortive but memorable 1964 attempt involved six Baathist air force MIG pilots, who planned to shoot down the presidential transport as it lifted from a runway. When worsening conditions in the country this year gave Al-Bakr a better chance to regain power, he started meeting at his house with 13 retired officer-politicians. In April, the group presented a petition to Aref for extensive reforms, including general elections within two years. When Aref balked...
...operating out of Barrow, flew the first three airdrops and actually made two landings out on the ice, but beyond a certain point in the sled journey, the R-4D couldn't make the flight without a refueling stop at T-3, pretty much an impossibility now that the runway has melted...
...booty from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took advantage of a similar treaty-signing ceremony to speak with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the airliner. He assured the Soviet leader that any violation of Soviet airspace was unintentional. Kosygin...
...first flight off the side of North Carolina's Kill Devil Hill sand dune. And it flies. At Georgia's Dobbins Air Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some minor difficulty with the landing gear, the world's largest aircraft, exulted Lockheed Test Pilot Leo J. Sullivan, performed in a way that was "phenomenally beautiful...
...shellbursts, bulldozers clattered across the base last week, filling the red clay scars that trenches had cut into the once verdant plateau, burying the hulks of crippled aircraft, Jeeps and trucks. Dust-caked Marines stacked up the aluminum matting that had formed Khe Sanh's 4,000-ft. runway, during the siege, its only link to the outside. Demolition men destroyed bunker after bunker, the single bit of protection against the rain of North Vietnamese steel that had lashed the base for almost half a year and cost its U.S. Marine defenders 199 dead and 1,600 wounded...