Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...
Next on the hit list was the military section of the Tripoli International Airport, base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...revised law, which is backed by the Administration, would end federal controls on the sale and transport of rifles and shotguns and would simplify record-keeping requirements for gun dealers, allowing them to transfer - firearms to "private collections" and sell them unrecorded. Dealers would also be protected from federal prosecution under remaining gun-law restrictions unless authorities can prove that their violations are "willful...
...newly approved bill repeals key provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, passed after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. It permits the interstate transport of all firearms, as well as most interstate sales of rifles and shotguns--deregulations the NRA claims are essential to sportsmen but which really do more to stifle law enforcement efforts...
...position similar to that of the "natural law" was used by Christian leaders to preach what they determined was the "naturalness" in the subjugation of black Africans and in the institution of slavery. A direct reflection of this position is evidenced by the names of the ships used to transport slaves across the sea, four of which were the "Jesus," the "Gift of God," the "Liberty," and the "Justice...