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- <text id=91TT2753>
- <title>
- Dec. 09, 1991: Closed:Clark Air Base
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 89
- </hdr><body>
- <p> CLOSED. Clark Air Base, a bastion of U.S. air power in the
- Pacific until the eruption of Mount Pinatubo put it out of
- business last June. In a somber ceremony General Jimmie Adams,
- commander of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, handed the ash-covered
- installation over to the Philippine government, which had
- granted the U.S. use of the facilities since 1947. Located near
- Manila, Clark played a key logistical role during the Vietnam
- War but lost its strategic value with the end of the cold war.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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