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...officials dismiss the possibility of a Berlin-style airlift for the Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
...succession of U. S. moves toward escalation. The U. S. has "started flying AH1 Cobra gunships, F-4 Phantoms and B-52 strategic bombers in support of South Vietnamese operations on Cambodia's Highway 4, put helicopter-carrying ships off the coast of Cambodia, and started a daily airlift of arms and ammunition to Phnom Penh," according to the Boston Globe...
...moment, the Soviets are mounting a large-scale mercy airlift to earthquake-struck Peru. Sixty-five flights will be made in all, many by the giant An-22, which, until the advent of the U.S.'s Lockheed C-5A last year, was the world's largest plane. Though U.S. sources discount rumors that the Soviets considered parachuting supplies to Communist guerrillas operating in Colombia and Venezuela, they suspect that the Soviets seized on the operation as an excuse for making proving flights along the Andes, a region in which they have had minimal flying experience. There...
...Galaxy case is particularly revealing. The C-5A, the world's largest aircraft, was intended to help the U.S. cut down on overseas based troops and supplies by providing speedy, capacious, emergency airlift from the U.S. to trouble spots abroad. A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a civilian cost analyst for the Air Force, was fired after testifying to the $2 billion C-5A cost overrun. Fitzgerald reported that an Air Force officer who raised questions about the cost of C-5A "was found to have unique qualifications to be the air attaché in Addis Ababa." Had the Air Force stopped...
...which tries to bar a President from pulling off another Vietnam, demands "affirmative action" from Congress before committing troops abroad. During the debates last June. Nixon scolded the Senate for tying his hands in global emergencies and cited the 1958 intervention in Lebanon and the 1964 Congolese airlift as such emergencies...