Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, the Cubans shipped in a small arsenal. On March 9 a Cuban transport plane landed in Brasilia carrying 100 passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an antiaircraft gun, even missiles...
...Sandinistas marshalled all the resources of the government to further their political ambitions. (In the U.S., government resources cannot be used for partisan campaigns.) Ortega used army trucks to transport people to pro-government rallies, and government workers painted campaign signs and distributed campaign literature, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). State television and radio broadcast anti-UNO propaganda regularly...
...would make travel safer for the 5,000 to 10,000 infants who board airplanes daily, it could make it more expensive. In many cases, parents will have to purchase an extra ticket for their baby, who currently flies free if seated on an adult's lap. But Air Transport Association President Robert Aaronson speculated that tickets for these tots might be free on underbooked planes or heavily discounted. "If you buckle up your child at 50 m.p.h.," he asked, "why not at 550 m.p.h...
...driver, Lamons, has a 20 minute break between routes. He says he's been driving this bus for five years for Crystal Transport, a company he says he helped found. He drives the Wellesley Senate bus Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, and says "I'd rather do this than...
...Navy should continue to play the central role in the global projection of U.S. might, though that should be possible with fewer aircraft carriers plus additional transport ships. It is also time for arms-control talks to be expanded to include reducing naval forces...