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...then the swashbuckling 52-year-old Daly is anything but the conventional airline executive. A combative, hard-drinking broth of an Irishman and an Archie Bunker lookalike, he seems to thrive on high drama and wrangles with Government bureaucrats. In the nearly two decades since his piston-engine DC-4s airlifted Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in 1956, Daly-who started with two war-surplus C-46Fs in 1950-has built World into the largest of the nation's supplemental airlines. Originally, he prospered largely by battling for and winning Military Airlift Command (MAC) contracts; lately, he has successfully...
...ARVN demands for more complex gear. One U.S. general tells of having to lecture some Vietnamese generals at a recent Saigon dinner. "I told them that in 1968, General Vo Nguyen Giap [the Communist Defense Minister] had a regiment right here in Saigon. He had no helicopters, no F-4s, no MIGs, no B-52s. 'Now,' I said, 'he's Vietnamese too. So how do you suppose General Giap solved his logistics problems?' They said they really didn't know, so I told them that the most important thing in war is not equipment...
...inside Cambodia. Meanwhile, the air war continues. B-52 bombers have been striking Communist concentrations in the Highlands. Over North Viet Nam, a U.S. F-4 Phantom jet accounted for the first "kill" of an enemy MIG-21 in 22 months, but Communist gunners also downed two American F-4s-bringing to 13 the total of planes lost since mid-December...
...backbone of Israel's clearly superior air force since 1969. Considering the importance of the planes, Israelis should have been happier-and Arabs more furious -than they were after it was announced at year's end that the U.S. was prepared to resume shipment of F-4s to Israel...
...most advanced ground-to-air missiles in the Russian arsenal, is a mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make...