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BONN. West German officials expanded their "refugee airlift" to fly 7,000 Soviet-zone refugees, many of them Jews, from camps in West Berlin to the Bonn Republic. Jews who have been Communists will not be turned back, but neither will they receive full political asylum, entitling them to preferential treatment in housing, pensions and jobs...
...These major accomplishments have been such achievements as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Defense Treaty, the intervention in Korea on behalf of the United Nations, the Mutual Defense Pacts in the Pacific, and the conclusion of peace with Japan in the fact of Soviet Russia's opposition...
...Australian beefsteaks, fried potatoes, vegetables, fresh bread, Algerian wine and 3,000 bottles of champagne-one bottle for every four men in the dusty, embattled airstrip. Thai and Vietnamese troops got frozen meat, dried fish and rice; the North Africans had wine, live sheep and goats, brought in by airlift. In a dugout mess 25 feet underground, Nasan Commander Two-Star General Jean Gilles passed out cigars and liquors to his staff. Said bearlike General Gilles: "We've done a nice job here...
...alarming situation. Though he had extricated his center, his left flank was crumbling. First, farflung French outposts, and then Sonla itself had to be abandoned. The French pulled back into Nasan 117 miles west of Hanoi, the only remaining bastion of the Black River defense line. An airlift (a plane every 15 minutes) was bringing reinforcements into Nasan and flying out thousands of Sonla's refugees. Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery, dug in for a spiky hedgehog battle...
...call it off. The Communists have a way of liquidating militarily unprofitable campaigns. They did it in the Greek civil war when U.S.-Greek pressure (guided by U.S. General Van Fleet) had the Red guerrillas backed into a corner. The Reds called off the Berlin blockade when the U.S. airlift saved Berlin and cost the Communists too much in prestige...