Word: airlift
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...hospitals. Children scour the city's streets and dumps looking for enough food to stay alive; merchants are selling off what remains of their inventories. A fear has taken hold in Phnom Penh which would have turned to panic long ago were it not for the American airlift...
...standing feud with the Vietnamese and they are apparently angry with the Soviets for maintaining an embassy in Phnom Pehn after the coup and they include as members both nationalists and communists. One other thing is certain: they would crush Lon Nol in a matter of weeks if the airlift is stopped...
...supplies the airlift brings into Phnom Pehn everyday are the only legs Lon Nol has to stand on. Without the ammunition, the army would have to surrender. Without the rice, the refugees would starve, as some are doing now, Lon Nol would be forced to fice to avoid execution, and we would have gained nothing. Even with the aid, as Defense Secretary Schlesinger admitted, we can only hope to preserve the status quo. The administration indicates it is hoping to get just enough money to last until the rainy season starts in June, hoping the Khmer will then agree...
Last week, as survivors picked their way through the ruins looking for loved ones, the Pakistani army began a helicopter airlift to the victims. Authorities feared that the toll might rise when rescue teams make contact with other villages that have been entirely cut off by the quake...
...night I was in bed when Dr. Kissinger called about midnight. He was highly distressed about the military developments in the Middle East. I got dressed and came to the Pentagon immediately. At 2:30 a.m. I decided that there was no other alternative than to use our military airlift all the way to Israel, and I obtained the approval of the White House. I ordered the aircraft launched immediately-a calculated risk, since we still did not have the approval of Portugal and did not get it until Saturday afternoon. I think that the performance of our people...