Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the road to the airport, red banners proclaim LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTY. On the tarmac, a young Vietnamese soldier wounded in fighting near the Chinese border waits, half-conscious, to be evacuated to Hanoi. His injuries are a month old. Blackened toes stick out of casts covering his feet under the stretcher blanket. He lies in the midday heat under the shade of an airplane wing, in the same valley in which another generation of Vietnamese soldiers fought and died three decades earlier...
...runway press conference. In Harrisburg, Mondale waited as usual for the press to shuffle out of the 727 ("How many more?" he croaked as the reporters filed by), so that the TV news cameramen could get a clear shot of him disembarking. For the 100 supporters gathered on the tarmac, he recited his routine speech, then climbed back up the ramp. On to Philadelphia for a fourth runway press conference ("Vice President Mondale, what is your favorite color?"), and then to Washington for a fund-raising dinner...
...arrange interviews with the commanding officer of the 224th or with any of his men were greeted with consternation. So were efforts to inspect the unit's twin-engine OV-1B and RU-21J aircraft. Nonetheless, five planes of each type could be seen parked on the tarmac of the 10,000-foot concrete airstrip. Painted dull gray, with small black letters identifying them as U.S. Army property, the aircraft bristled with electronic equipment. Despite the official wall of secrecy, off-duty members of the 224th, drinking beer in a bar at the nearby city of Comayagua, confirmed their...
...carpets were rolled out lavishly in Damascus last week in a ceremony that marked both a welcome for the guest and a triumph for the host. On the tarmac of the city's international airport, Syrian President Hafez Assad waited patiently as a chartered executive jet glided to a halt and delivered his reluctant visitor, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. The two men embraced, then repaired to a dais while ranks of Syrian troops passed in review and field guns barked out a 21-gun salute. The solicitous display spoke volumes about the intricacies of politics in the Middle East...
...they arrived in Manila last week. The joggers, led by Agapito Aquino, 45, younger brother of murdered Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., had set out five days earlier on a 90-mile protest run from Aquino's birthplace in the town of Concepcion in Tarlac province to the tarmac at Manila International Airport, where Aquino was assassinated last August. They were protesting a referendum called by President Ferdinand Marcos for Jan. 27 to ratify a constitutional amendment on the presidential succession. Along the way, military police intercepted and harassed the joggers, drawing wide attention to the marathon. The protesters...