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...region bordering Laos-a favorite Red supply route-the U.S. is arming and organizing some 6,000 mountaineer tribesmen long neglected by President Diem's government and wooed by the Communists. The U.S. is superintending the building of jungle airstrips capable of handling planes as big as C-47s, and encouraging the development of auxiliary arms, ranging from communications teams to girl sharpshooters. The U.S. is also sponsoring anti-Red guerrillas in North Viet Nam, to give the Communists a taste of their own medicine...
...overage and had severe astigmatism, in addition to bad knees-Goldwater bluffed his way past the physical exam*. Assigned to Phoenix's Luke Field in a nonflying post, he bummed rides in his spare time, demanded a check-out flight -and got his wings. Later he ferried P-47s across the North Atlantic, saw action in the Mediterranean and C.B.I, theaters, emerged from the war a lieutenant colonel. Now a Reserve brigadier general, Goldwater has flown in some 75 different types of aircraft, including 16 jets...
...staging bases at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and tiny Swan Island off the Honduran coast, fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built airstrip at Retalhuleu, at Guatemala City...
...friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz caved in without a fight, Guevara's wounded idealism and urge to do battle combined with his strong dislike of the U.S. to become a deep...
...helmeted Swedish troops from the UNEF force at Gaza, disgorged them again 2,700 miles away in Leopoldville. Out of the shuttling intercontinental planes came food rations, Jeeps, heavy trucks, communications equipment, dismantled light planes. At the request of the U.N. command, the U.S. flew in ten Douglas C-47s, turned them over to U.N. pilots to help ferry U.N. troops around the country...