Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly move their 20,000 troops and supplies to any point in the area. My companions are equipped by the U.S. from Honduras, but they grumble that they had to carry the arms and supplies across the border on their backs. The F.D.N.'s single, ancient C-47 transport plane cannot be used in Nueva Segovia because of heavy Sandinista defenses...
...them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said one prominent Sunni powerbroker: "I guess Karami thinks that by co-opting a Cabinet rather than forming one through consensus, he can steamroll issues through...
...bishops' charges echoed other reports in recent months. Refugees who fled into neighboring Botswana told of beatings, rape and torture by government forces, and of villagers being denied food supplies as a result of a stringent 18-hour curfew and a ban on transport in and out of the region. The bishops' report, which was given to the government two weeks before it was released publicly last week, stung the Prime Minister. Mugabe, 60, who was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Catholic Kutama Mission, wished the churchmen "success in their prayers," but declared that...
...received help from the sea, the assault force did get other kinds of discreet aid. According to their commanders, the new 82-mm mortars and 50-cal. machine guns that the contras used at San Juan del Norte were delivered ten days earlier by a U.S.-built C-47 transport, which also dropped pallets of food and ammunition under cover of darkness at a Costa Rican site ten miles south of the Nicaraguan border. An A.R.D.E. soldier who is a U.S. citizen, George Davis, of Great Falls, Mont., claimed the pilot was an American. "I'm here to fight...
...site of the launch. But just as Shuttle Commander Bob Crippen and his crew prepared to descend from orbit and end their seven-day, more-than-2 million-mile flight, storm clouds began gathering near Cape Canaveral, complicating Challenger's descent. The California touchdown will force NASA to transport Challenger back across the U.S. to Florida and will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the mission. The trip across the continent will delay Shuttle Mission 12, scheduled for June 19, by a week or more...