Word: airlift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVACUATED. JERRI NIELSEN, 47, U.S. doctor who has been treating herself since July with chemotherapy for a lump in her breast; from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station; by the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing...
Contingency forces which are heavily armored and highly mobile through strategic airlift will be a necessity in contingencies entailing mid-intensity combat. --FROM CLARK'S THESIS...
...weather so horrendous that at various times during the past two weeks, as many as 100,000 vacationers have been stranded in Alpine resorts because roads and railroads became impassable. In Galtur, in the Tyrolean Alps, an international fleet of helicopters, including some U.S. Army Blackhawks, had to airlift thousands of trapped tourists...
...Israel also has a close relationship with the Kenyan authorities, and a history of operating in the region. Kenya was used as a staging ground for Israel's spectacular 1977 rescue of hijack hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport, and later also for its emergency airlift of Ethiopian Jews. Israeli personnel took charge of rescue operations in Nairobi following the U.S. embassy bombing last July...
...foreign front, the Cold War heats up as the Soviet Union blockades Berlin, leading to the massive Berlin Airlift which keeps Berlin afloat until the Soviets relented...