Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were no photographers on hand when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stepped onto the tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of the Kremlin's most powerful leaders, a man widely regarded as a pragmatist rather than a hard-lining ideologue, was seen as a reassuring sign by many Poles. Said one Warsaw journalist: "It means that the Soviets are prepared to accept what we are doing as long...
...keeping with an almost sinister Government tendency to treat the war as an elaborate bureaucratic illusion, the military shipped people out alone and brought them back alone. The process caused surreal dislocations: one day in a firefight in I Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked...
...scattered prisons and to find a third country willing to admit them. As the tense siege wore on, Karl Schneider, 44, a U.S. businessman working in Indonesia, tried to duplicate an earlier escape by a British passenger. The terrorists shot him in the back and dumped him on the tarmac...
...American passenger on the ill-fated flight, Frederick Hubbell, 29, said the hijackers were "deliberately erratic. Sometimes they were kind, sometimes they became very brutal-after all, they killed a man." Their victim: Pakistani Diplomat Tariq Rahim, shot in full view of the other passengers and dumped on the tarmac at Kabul...
After perfunctory haggling, we pile into a van for the next leg of the trip to El Arish. The tarmac has long ago been chewed up by Israeli armor. It leads to a moonscape of sand dunes that over the centuries has been traversed by Pharaonic armies, Roman legions, Crusaders and even Napoleon's troops. For vast stretches the only signs of life are camels and goats foraging for shrubs...