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...World War II, modified DC-3s served as troop and cargo carriers, hospital planes and even as a kind of bomber. Dwight Eisenhower hailed the plane as one of the five pieces of equipment that did most to win World War II. Said Founder Donald W. Douglas, 83, at commemorative ceremonies in Santa Monica, Calif., last week: "In a parody of Ol' Man River, she flies...
...week's end the Cambodian government was reported ready to cut down the trees lining Phnom-Penh's Democracy Boulevard so that the wide roadway can be turned into an emergency landing strip for DC-3s in case the airport is closed down by Khmer Rouge rocket attacks. Such a desperate ploy might extend the war for a few days, or even a week or two, but not for long. This week the city braced itself for the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, a date the insurgents have previously celebrated with heavy attacks...
...equipment leaves a bit to be desired. As one Pentagon official puts it: "The Cambodians are fighting with the biggest museum of junk you ever saw." Their air force, for instance, consists of 20 or so pre-Korean-War-vintage T-28 fighter-bombers, a few DC-3s that have been converted into gunships, and Piper Cubs that are used for aerial reconnaissance...
...east bank. When Sisco proposed a "symbolic" crossing of Egyptian troops to the east bank, Mrs. Meir replied quite sarcastically. She reminded him that last year, when Israel complained of massive Soviet missile movements near the canal in violation of the ceasefire, Sisco soothingly suggested that all those SA-3s were merely symbolic...
Russian commercial planes already fill the skies of East bloc countries, but aircraft sales to the West have been negligible. The government of Colombia was offered five YAK-40s (small, 40-passenger trijets that are modern counterparts of the old DC-3s) at a bargain price of $750,000 each with a ten-year, 3% line of credit. But when the U.S. State Department this spring announced that it would not allow the Federal Aviation Administration to certify the plane as meeting U.S. safety and performance standards, the Colombians backed out of the deal. Several aviation experts suggest that...