Word: planeload
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organizations have been struggling to fill the gap, but with limited success and under considerable danger. Miami-based Southern Air Transport is under contract to the U.N. to fly in maize from Uganda. The S.P.L.A. has vowed to shoot relief planes out of the sky. In October the first planeload of maize actually made it into Juba. Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount...
...Iranians' trip to Washington followed other unsuccessful attempts to negotiate with Iran, including former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane's trip to Tehran with a planeload of armaments in an effort to gain freedom for U.S. hostages in Lebanon...
When former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North and the CIA's Cave flew into Tehran with a planeload of U.S. arms last May, Cave still distrusted Ghorbanifar and managed to underscore doubts about him in McFarlane's mind as well. While in Tehran, Cave bypassed Ghorbanifar to cultivate a direct contact with Speaker Rafsanjani. He was sufficiently successful that McFarlane, too, felt he no longer needed Ghorbanifar...
Once the shipments were under way, Ghorbanifar claims, he made 76 trips between Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East to keep the negotiations on track. When McFarlane, North and other American negotiators flew to Iran last May with a planeload of weapons, Ghorbanifar says, he chartered the jet and paid for the group's stay in Tehran. McFarlane says he does not know who paid but assumes the bill was split by the U.S. and Iranian governments. Ghorbanifar also charges that Khashoggi was cut out of several of the deals on orders from McFarlane. The former National Security Adviser...
...late August, Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon. Though the plane landed safely at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, the arms never got to the Iranian army. They were seized by members of the vehemently anti- Western Revolutionary Guards...