Word: airlift
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...will maintain its six divisions in Germany "as long as there is need for them-and under present circumstances there is no doubt that they will continue to be needed." Did the airlift mean withdrawal of American troops from
...Germany? "The answer is no-the opposite is the case. Because of the airlift, we have at the moment a seventh division temporarily in Europe...
...absence of enemy opposition in the landing area could be largely traced to Viet Cong fear of the rocket-carrying Hueys. Before their arrival in South Viet Nam last fall, devastating Communist ground fire against the lumbering, defenseless H-21s threatened to halt the government's helicopter airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...
...April meeting in Nicaragua. The aim: "To develop and put into immediate effect common measures to restrict the movement of [subversive] nationals to and from Cuba, and the flow of materials, propaganda and funds from that country." The sessions will seek ways of cutting Cuba's subversive airlift (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...seven Presidents agreed to hold a ministerial conference next month to devise "stricter travel and passport controls" and a "more rapid and complete exchange of intelligence information on the movement of people, propaganda, money and arms." The subversion airlift also figured prominently in the questions and answers at Kennedy's press conference two days later. The key to the airlift, obviously, is Mexico. And while the Mexicans may pass on the airport mug shots, stamp passports and occasionally confiscate a load of propaganda, they have done nothing to stop the flights, or to stem the flood of people pouring...