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By George
To my way of thinking the only cure is for everyone to use the same runway and that is the one most favourable to the wind direction. I know airmanship is no longer fashionable but that is what we always did in the past and it seemed to work.
Whilst I generally agree with that and am not meaning to dismiss your comment, there can be (what I belive are valid) reasons for not doing this at times.
The tug would have been towing a cable, so avoiding using the runway that the other aircraft are operating on, may have been one of these reasons.