Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involve up to 5,000 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel. Joint Chiefs Chairman John Vessey was to visit Honduras this week to coordinate the plans. The operation apparently will first involve sending Army engineers to Honduras to enlarge several airstrips so that 250-ft.-long C-5A Galaxy transport planes can fly in U.S. Army troops (345 in each C-5A). This would demonstrate how quickly Honduras could be aided...
...could send a shiver up the spine. Dark and light wash the stage in successive stages of mind. At last the ensemble unfolds in one amazing effect all the nymphs of Shades encircle Persephone go droop like the fronds of a dead flower and all stylization evaporates in a transport of pure and true musical emotion...
...some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages they can devastate local agriculture and drive the residents from areas that might otherwise lend support to the insurgents...
...here." Ride clearly was. She enjoyed flights in NASA's two-seat T-38 trainers so much that she went on to get her private pilot's license. She threw herself enthusiastically into parachute training, scuba diving and even stomach-churning flights aboard a NASA KC-135 transport, whose high-speed arcs gave the Ascans a brief, exhilarating taste of weightlessness...
Nonetheless, one-third of Iran's imports still travel through Soviet territory and, with its biggest port, Khorramshahr, closed, Iran is dependent on Soviet rail transport. The Soviets could retaliate by stemming those imports, courting the Mujahedin guerrillas or increasing their already considerable supply of sophisticated arms to Iraq. Soviet KGB agents from nearby Soviet Azerbaijan have reportedly infiltrated Iran to replace the agents who were arrested...