Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first private businessman to launch commercial cargo into space, possibly from Cape Canaveral. Entrepreneur George Koopman's Menlo Park, Calif., firm, American Rocket, is conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. Like Truax, Koopman says the hardest part about starting a space-transport firm is raising enough money. Says he: "I'm still out there beating the bushes for funds...
...Antonov An-26 troop transport had just lumbered down the runway and taken off from Khost, near the Pakistan border, when it was blasted from the sky by mujahedin rebels. The incident, in which 37 Afghan soldiers and six crew members were killed, marked a coming of age of sorts for the mujahedin. Military analysts say the plane was the biggest prize yet claimed by the rebels' new arsenal of U.S.-made Stinger missiles...
...Natale added that the MWRA will also construct a pipeline to take the purified sewage two to six miles out to sea. He said the agency will use other funds it receives to construct a system of piers that will transport the over 2,000 construction workers expected to join the clean-up out to the islands...
Student participants in the Phillips Brooks House Food Salvage Committee will transport the food to the Pearl St. establishment, which is one of three homeless meal centers in Cambridge...
...fell the task of logistical support, including transport, banking and hiring specialized agents. CIA Director Casey entrusted the task to the counterterrorism section, which in January 1986 he put under the direction of his longtime favorite, Duane ("Dewey") Clarridge. Charles Allen, the agency's chief analyst for counterterrorism, was made Clarridge's deputy...