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...hospitals and build several new ones. And since a major difficulty for civilians is getting to a hospital in time for treatment to be effective, Major General James W. Humphreys, who has been in charge of U.S. medical assistance to Viet Nam, has been trying to get helicopters to airlift casualties, as is now done for the military wounded...
...neutralist, part Communist-that by treaty is off limits to all foreign troops. But when the North Vietnamese moved in, the U.S., at the request of Prince Souvanna Phouma, provided aid and advisers in civilian clothes to the royalist-neutralist coalition fighting the Pathet Lao. American planes now daily airlift food and arms into remote areas of Laos loyal to the central government of Vientiane. The U.S. equipped the Royal Laotian Air Force, and U.S. pilots sometimes fly the planes with the tri-headed Elephant Lao markings...
...American World Airways operates 32 weekly commercial cargo and passenger flights to Saigon. In addition, Pan Am assigns up to 20 jets a month to the U.S. Military Airlift Command for South Viet Nam duty- at less than half the rates it would receive for similar commercial service. The carrier's right to land commercial flights at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport depends on an annual permit - and the last one expired last Dec. 31. Two days later, Vietnamese authorities refused landing clearance to a Pan Am commercial flight, changed their minds only after urgent and angry...
...meantime, the two governments have suspended their talks until the airlines reach agreement. At that point, U.S. officials will be mired deep in an even stickier problem. The Saigon government is also demanding - incredibly-payments of premiums (in all probability fat landing fees) by Military Airlift Command contract carriers such as Slick, Continental and World Airways, hauling war cargoes and personnel. It goes without saying that U.S. officials feel that a Flying Tiger CL-44 carrying military cargo should no more have to pay a landing fee to Saigon than an F-4 Phantom returning from an air strike against...
This time, the Russians did more than protest the Chinese outrages. They began an emergency airlift of all of their more than 200 embassy dependents from Peking, who started boarding planes amidst a howling mob of angry Chinese. The Russians also retaliated in Moscow, where the Chinese embassy had mounted inside its compound a glassed-in display of photographs of police and students scuffling in what the Chinese called "The Bloody Incident in Red Square." Burly Soviet plainclothesmen chopped down the display case with axes and saws. When the Chinese rushed out to defend their art work, the cops pushed...