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Canceled. The next morning, Oct. 10, "American and Israeli intelligence picked up the first clear signals of a Soviet airlift into Damascus and Cairo." Kissinger and Dinitz discussed the situation, and Dinitz again pressed for supplies. Kissinger promised rapid results. "He called Schlesinger," say the Kalbs, "and asked him to organize civilian charters to carry American military aid to Israel as quickly as possible. The Defense Secretary showed little enthusiasm for the idea, but he offered no opposition. Kissinger wasn't sure at that point if Schlesinger intended to help...
When the world first discovered the dimensions of the crisis last year, there was no time to truck in most of the supplies. The FAO mobilized an airlift costing more than $30 million or nearly half of what the food was worth. Now FAO chiefs fear that an airlift may again be needed. But increased fuel prices could double the cost of the operation, a cost that the FAO may find the donors unwilling to underwrite...
...according to me but rather to more knowledgeable sources like the President of the United States and Secretary of State Kissinger, that the massive American military airlift to Israel was essentially responsible for sustaining Israeli war effort in mid-fighting. In fact all previous assertions that Arabs a) cannot make war b) would not dare make war since Israel has obtained all the military hardware she needed prior to the October fighting c) that Israel's pre-October cease fire lines were so invincible that no one would dare attempt to cross them, have been totally discredited...
...America's European allies to support the U.S. in backing Israel-and said so. To begin with, Washington was incensed by the fact that Prime Minister Edward Heath declined to let Britain propose an American-initiated cease-fire resolution in the United Nations. When the giant U.S. airlift to Israel began, several European countries pointedly told Washington that American transport planes could neither refuel in their territory, even at American airbases, nor fly over it. Portugal alone cooperated, allowing the U.S. aerial convoy to touch down at Lajes Field in the Azores for refueling...
...Russian airlift began five days after the war started, the U.S. effort four days later. By the end of last week, however, the U.S. was equaling the daily Soviet tonnage and had transported approximately 5,000 tons of supplies to Israel by C130, C-141 and C-5A cargo planes. Prevented by Spain from using U.S. bases there during the crisis, the American transports refueled at Lajes Field in the Portuguese Azores, then flew on to Israel. The Defense Department stationed what it called a "limited" number of Air Force logistics experts in Tel Aviv to help unload antiaircraft...