Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposes, Gaddafi was considered unreliable by Soviet leaders, although they were generously plying him with sophisticated arms. While Gaddafi kept selling oil to the U.S., his relations with Washington had been strained ever since 1973, when President Nixon blocked the sale of eight C-130 Hercules military jet-transport planes to Libya. The Arab nation had paid Lockheed $60 million for the aircraft, but Nixon denied the required export license in hopes of restraining Libya's encouragement of international terrorism...
Since early July, workers in 68 enterprises have walked off the job. The most dramatic protest occurred in Lublin (pop. 300,000), where railway and other transport workers brought the southeastern city to a standstill for three days. The army had to be called in to deliver milk and bread. Instead of resorting to force, local party leaders used wall posters to appeal for a return to order. Among the pleas was a Politburo warning that the strikes "could awaken the concern of our neighbors"-a thinly veiled reference to the possibility of Soviet intervention...
...paratroopers are to seize an airstrip 10 km from the jump site so that, in a real war, thousands more could fly in aboard transport planes. On the way, they will engage two companies of "Aggressors," played by other units from the 82nd Airborne and the Air Force...
Missouri Governor Joseph Teasdale requested utility companies not to shut off service to any delinquent customers during the heat emergency and called out the National Guard to transport heat patients and cooling equipment...
Some U.S. military officials fear that the ties could loosen in response to mutual frustrations. As one example, they note that many of the 1,600 buses the U.S. provided for Egypt's chaotic transport system two years ago have broken down, either through bad maintenance or overloading; some arrived in Egypt without mufflers and produced a grating roar that Cairenes cynically refer to as the "voice of America." U.S. military officials are also concerned about the ability of Egypt's armed forces-considered the best in the Arab world-to cope with the complex U.S. weaponry that...