Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bland, beefy hero of World War II who is now waiting out retirement, Johnson testified that while he had responsibility for Pueblo, he had no ships or planes under his command to send to her rescue. Contingency plans were developed calling for the Seventh Fleet and Fifth Air Force to provide help should it be needed...
...plans had an almost surrealistic quality, as if Pueblo were on a paper mission while the military played an elaborate game. Air Force jets were kept "on call" on Okinawa, 900 air miles from Wonsan, North Korea. However, it would have taken 21 hours to scramble the fighters and fly them to Pueblo's aid. Four fighter-bombers were supposed to be ready in South Korea, but they were armed with nuclear warheads and useless for such a mission. Air Force jets stationed in Japan were unavailable because a status-of-forces agreement prevented their use in any combat...
...contingency plan to use forces that did not exist." His face flushing, Johnson admitted that this was so. He noted, however, that even if he had had the ships and planes at his disposal, he could not have dispatched them until a request had filtered up through the Air Force and Navy chains of command to the Pentagon and, presumably, the White House...
...Quemado Palace, Bolivia's presidential seat, has one entrance marked "RB" for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present occupant. The onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have...
...accounts for 72% of the nation's population of 3,800,000. Barrientos sleeps only four hours a night, starts work at 7 a.m. and is incapable of being chairborne for very long. The way to go any place, as far as the President is concerned, is by air; he was trained to fly by the U.S. Air Force, and he reaches for the controls of an aircraft like oth er taut executives reach for a golf club...