Word: airlifted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More serious were reports that a growing number of Soviet AN-12 and AN-22 transports were airlifting supplies-ammunition, antitank missiles and surface-to-air missiles-to Syria. "If this turns out to be a massive airlift," said State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey with exquisite delicacy, "it would tend to put a new face on the situation." Soon after, the U.S. admitted that it had begun to ship ammunition and missiles to the Israelis...
...famine. In a massive multi-nation relief effort, grain sacks are piled high in Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos, the chief railheads for the drought-desolated nations of Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali and Senegal. Their antiquated railroad networks cannot move grain quickly enough into the interior. The ongoing airlift offers the most plausible solution, but there are not enough aircraft. The result is that while mass famine has been averted over a 2,600-mi. strip stretching across the southern Sahara, many of the area's 24 million people are still seriously short of food. Severe malnutrition seems...
...within several weeks after the agreements were formally approved, U.S. Air Force reconnaisance jets thundered over Pathet Lao camps, and the CIA continued to airlift aid to the pro-American Meo tribesmen...
...Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization is coordinating an airlift to bring more than 400,000 tons of grain to the stricken nations. This is a stopgap measure at best. U.S. officials in Dakar estimate that grain gifts may have to continue for another 30 years. They also believe that it may take three decades to build irrigation and reforestation projects to contain the desert-assuming that the poverty-stricken sub-Saharan nations can find the billions necessary...
...Return gives every Jew anywhere the right to Israeli citizenship; the last great wave of immigration is climaxed by a massive airlift of 47,000 Yemenite Jews...