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...airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen of Maine were about to arrive in Managua for talks with Sandinista officials when the attack began. Their U.S. Air Force C140 transport was ordered into a holding pattern and then diverted to Honduras. The Senators arrived in Managua later in the day and surveyed the damaged airport with Nicaraguan officials, who wanted them to see what U.S. aid to the rebels was doing...
...Congress Watch report showed that the travel is not only » frequent, but also often extravagant. For example, costly military transport planes are used | when commercial airline service would be cheaper and just as convenient. Congressman Ronnie 3 Hippo, an Alabama Democrat, last year led a nine-member delegation to Vienna to attend a U.N. conference. The flight costs came to $74,392 using military aircraft, almost three times the tab to fly business class in commercial planes, according to the report. These bills are paid out of funds-$26.3 million this year-that Congress appropriates to the Air Force...
...announcement, published in Pravda, might come as good news to Soviet factory managers who complain that they are hamstrung by too many orders from Moscow. The new regulations, effective early next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also...
...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...