Word: hovercraft
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...sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
Armchair strategists speculate that the armored attack to the west might be accompanied by a Marine amphibious landing on the Kuwaiti coast, using high- speed hovercraft and "vertical envelopment" -- meaning helicopters -- to disgorge large numbers of troops onto the beaches. Others envision a key role for the American paratroop units -- the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions...