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...base at Entebbe in Uganda, 300 miles from Goma, had only one international phone line for communication with top brass in Europe and the U.S. The disorganization, lack of fuel and congestion at all central African airports grounded many planes meant to ferry relief supplies. "There are all these aircraft sitting here, and the military just milling around," observed one of at least a dozen relief workers trying unsuccessfully to reach Goma from Entebbe last week. Several U.S. military flights that did make it as far as Goma circled the airstrip, then flew back to Entebbe after missing their landing...
Before this week is out, more than 12,000 airplanes and 1 million onlooking enthusiasts will flock to the Experimental Aircraft Association convention, centered in Oshkosh but splayed out over the lush Wisconsin landscape from Fond du Lac to Appleton and Green Bay. This remarkable event was begun in a basement 42 years ago by flyer Paul Poberezny, the son of a Ukrainian immigrant. Involving 400 types of aircraft, it is judged by some to be the world's biggest convention and aviation's most diversified air show, dwarfing state fairs and even Woodstock '94, drawing people from...
...transit point instead of the jammed airport near refugee camps in the Zairian border town of Goma. The bottlenecked Goma has proved a frustrating place from which to launch a rescue effort, even though the largest contingent of refugees has gathered in and around the city. U.S. aircraft landed there today with vital equipment to purify contaminated water that has spread cholera among tens of thousands of the 1.2 million refugees...
...Canyon, which draws 5 million visitors a year, the rim is congested with automobiles, and the air is filled with the buzz of helicopters and small planes carrying sightseers. The number of air passengers has doubled since 1987, to 800,000. On the busiest routes through the canyon, an aircraft streaks by about once every 90 seconds, which has created a noise level that harasses wildlife and threatens fragile cliff formations. Congress has restricted the flyover areas to about half the canyon, but the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are devising regulations to limit noise...
...Rwandan refugees continue to die. Since the weekend, U.S. planes carrying relief supplies have circled for hours over the tiny, clogged airport at Goma, Zaire, then landed in Kenya or Uganda because they were running low on fuel. (Zairian authorities charged a fee of $2,000 from each U.S. aircraft that did land.) Many aid workers are blaming the foul-ups on French forces who have run the airport since mid-June. U.N. officials, meanwhile, suspended other American flights because they had received more aid than they could distribute amid a shortage of trucks and personnel. The chaos of goodwill...