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...have to keep its 25,000 troops in Angola until independence in order to avoid a civil war that could threaten the safety of the 400,000 Portuguese living there. At week's end there were reports from South Africa that Portugal would begin a massive two-month airlift to rescue the white settlers. This, however, would not end the problems the settlers could pose for the triumvirate. Relocated in Portugal, they would probably make up an embittered and impoverished bloc that would blame the regime for not doing more to protect Portuguese interests in Africa...
...tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate. For all the doubts about the meeting's real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years after American and Soviet troops met at the Elbe, 27 years after the Berlin airlift, 26 years after the birth of NATO, 22 years after the death of Stalin, and 19 years after Nikita Khrushchev told the West, "We will bury you!" The Helsinki charter formalizes the boundaries and power balances created by recent history, thereby marking a theoretical end to World...
...they tended to be lax about minor infractions of the rules. At first, prison rules were aimed at keeping us in the dark regarding political developments. If it were not for the guards, for instance, we would never have known that the Russians had blockaded Berlin and that an airlift was under way." Later, however, the prisoners were allowed to read newspapers and books...
Before the airlift, about 2700 Vietnamese children had been placed in American homes. Sixty came to Massachusetts, and the airlift brought some 40 more to the state. According to Williams, roughly 30 per cent of the children are not full Vietnamese. To a large degree, all the children have entered a small community within the larger one--the world of adoptive parents and related agencies and organizations...
Parents of Vietnamese children, organized as the Friends of Children--Vietnam, made preparations before the airlift to handle a large number of children unassigned to parents if they came to the state. Working with Children's Hospital, they set up a Vietnamese clinic to screen the children for disease. "The children arrived in horrible physical shape," Williams said. "The spectrum between healthy and unhealthy was very small." Local doctors, nurses and dentists volunteered, she says, to treat everything from syphilis to scabies...