Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration officials had little time to rejoice over that small victory before they received more bad news from Beirut. A 155-mm "cluster" shell, of the type supplied by the U.S. to Israel, exploded on the airport tarmac, killing one Marine and wounding three others. The shell was apparently left over from the heavy fighting last summer between Israeli troops and guerrillas of the P.L.O. The dead man, Corporal David L. Reagan, 21, of Chesapeake, Va., was a combat engineer assigned to clear the airport of land mines and other explosives...
...outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp on the rear of the C-5B and roll off on the ramp at the front. To load a 747, however, equipment must be hoisted 16 ft. off the tarmac and pushed through nose or side doors...
...Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...twin-engine executive jet that landed at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport last week looked distinctly out of place next to the Ilyushins and Antonovs parked on the tarmac. On its fuselage was lettered United States of America. A team of top U.S. officials had flown in to discuss with Communist officials an issue that still stirs deep emotions among Americans: the fate of 2,553 U.S. soldiers still unrecovered from the Indochina...
...afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped a wing dangerously low during an aborted landing at Andrews Air Force Base, was his homecoming potentially marred. When the plane finally touched down safely, Dozier greeted Vice President George Bush on the tarmac with characteristic unconcern. Said he: "It's doggone good to be home...