1. He was hustled into the van and driven to a waiting helicopter at a nearby private airstrip. 2. The hostages are mostly workers for the Red Cross or Red Crescent who were taken prisoner at a nearby airstrip last month. 3. A small airplane was blown over at a nearby airstrip. 4. He said the insurgents had withdrawn from the town and a nearby airstrip. 5. The opposition military alliance has no nearby airstrips and its aircraft have limited capability. 6. Last November, NATO warplanes bombed the nearby Udbina airstrip in Serb-held Croatia after a Serb jet attacked the Bihac enclave. 7. Locals say the city was now under full control of governor Gul Agha, backed by a heavy presence of US troops based at a nearby airstrip. 8. Planes were being sent to a nearby airstrip to pick up the wounded, sources in Lubumbashi said. |