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...planes near the Soviet periphery, Lodge glanced up at the six visiting wives and widows of the crewmen of the downed RB-47E (TIME, July 25) and damned the Soviet show as "a pretty revolting piece of hypocrisy." Most important, Lodge called the Soviets on their threat to airlift Red troops into the chaotic Congo in defiance of U.N. attempts to bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members," said Lodge, "we will do whatever may be necessary to prevent the intrusion of any military forces not requested by the United Nations." The firm rejoinder...
...runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...
Instead of flying back empty, the airlift planes made short runs to Portuguese Angola and French Congo, and to such Congolese cities as Stanleyville and Co-quilhatville, loaded up with Belgian, British and American refugees and flew them back to Europe...
...choice of inviting Belgian troops to restore order. Should he refuse, the Belgians would intervene on their own initiative. As the Belgian plane took off, the paratroop reservists were assembled at collection points, ready for immediate departure, and army planes warmed up at Belgian airfields to begin the airlift. Either the Congolese government would restore law and order or the Belgian paratroops would do it for them...
Beginning during the Korean war, when certificated airlines operating in the Pacific did not have the capacity to meet the tremendous increase in military airlift requirements, CAB granted special rate and other economic exemptions to lines flying charter contracts for MATS. At cut-rate prices established by competitive bidding, nonskeds got the right to fly to given points regardless of the regular carriers already certificated on the route. The effect, CAB now concedes, was to develop "what amounts to an overlapping air transport system...