Word: airstrip
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...clustered around the author after his return from Biafra eagerly asking after friends on the other side. In describing the psychology of the white mercenaries who fought for both the Nigerians and the Biafrans, De St. Jorre suggests the real reason the Nigerians never managed to destroy Uli airstrip -which remained Biafra's lifeline to the very end-was that the pilots hired by the Nigerians had a vested interest in keeping it, and thus the war, alive...
...time Barr reached the airfield, a doctor was on hand to confirm the break, and a nurse was standing by to accompany the patient on the flight to Chicago. Notified by radio, the Chicago fire department sent a helicopter to meet Barr's flying ambulance at a small airstrip on Chicago's outskirts and sped him to Wesley Memorial, where a team of doctors waited. Though paralyzed, Barr survived...
FREEPORT, Texas--Two heavily armed black men who hijacked a jetliner over New York City Wednesday night released three hostage stewardesses from the stranded plane Thursday at a Texas commuter airstrip and surrendered...
Eight FBI agents armed with high-powered rifles surrounded the jetliner at the Freeport airstrip, as Sheriff Robert Gladney and state and local police sealed off the area for the radius of a mile...
...Highlands city of Kontum, Communist sapper forces attacked from the south and east, and for a time held part of the city. After several hours they were driven to the south but continued to fight tenaciously near the Kontum airstrip...