Word: transport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the nunciature's front door. He stumbled twice in the darkness, but pulled himself together as he surrendered to General Cisneros. He was hustled to a Black Hawk helicopter waiting nearby and flown to Howard Air Force Base, where he was ushered into a C-130 Air Force transport and formally arrested by officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. After the plane left Panama for Florida, the once feared strongman broke into tears...
...Washington permitted its withdrawal. Then a snag developed. "Did you ever try to get $50 million in $20 and $50 bills?" asked an American participant in the money roundup. After much scrambling, the Federal Reserve Bank in San Antonio accumulated the cash. The Pentagon supplied a C-130 transport, which was loaded from armored personnel carriers hauling the cash; other APCs awaited the plane in Panama. Deadline met -- barely...
...reporter, but the trick was to get to them. There are no commercial flights to the continent, and hitching a ride on a ship can take weeks. For associate editor Michael Lemonick, months of planning paid off last December, when he climbed aboard a military C-130 transport bound from New Zealand for McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base on Ross Island in Antarctica...
...self-sustaining maintenance machinery that the Secret Service and White House staff wanted. Everybody from the stewards to the pilots was consulted, even the reporters who cover the President. They asked for the moon and got it. Boeing and Congress never blinked. The planes will be the most expensive transport aircraft ever produced...
Over the next 24 hours, the American force nearly doubled as 9,500 troops, divided into five task forces, parachuted out of the Panama skies or scrambled from large transport aircraft...