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...January 25, 1983, Barbie received notification of his impending expulsion from Bolivia, and a few days later found himself abroad a C-130 transport plane headed for French Guinea. Waiting to accept the prize for France's socialist government, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy explained to the world the reasoning behind Barbie's extradition...
...area chosen for the exercise is part of a surreptitious battleground used by Nicaraguan exiles in a growing counter-revolutionary war against their homeland. U.S. Air Force pilots learned about the covert war the hard way during Big Pine: two days after the exercise began, a U.S. C-130 transport aircraft was sent back to the U.S. with bullet holes in its tail assembly...
...exercise in the U.S. ability to transport and supply the Hondurans, Operation Big Pine went off without a hitch. But as a test of Honduran military ability, the exercise appeared to be a failure. The ill-trained Hondurans were unable to cope with the 1,300 tons of equipment rained on them by the U.S. Nor did they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured...
...snow removal budget has remained constant after being cut in the first year of Proposition 2 1/2. Before the property tax-cutting measure passed in 1980; the city could transport snow off main streets after plowing...
...combat. When this was discussed, I practically went into a state of shock because of the moral conflicts it caused within me. It made me sick. They wanted me to provide soldiers to dig the graves, guards to control the Miskitos while they were being shot, trucks to transport them. I don't know if this massacre actually happened or not. On Aug. 10, I left Nicaragua...