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...after suffering a stroke; in Manhattan. As General Eisenhower's diplomatic liaison during World War II, Murphy worked with the French underground, mixing negotiation, espionage and bluffing to engineer the virtually bloodless surrender of Algiers to the Allies in 1942. In 1948 he helped to devise the Berlin airlift when the Soviets blockaded the city, and four years later became the first postwar Ambassador to Japan, helping negotiate an end to the Korean War. Although Murphy retired in 1959, he continued to advise Presidents, and in 1976 was named by Gerald Ford to head the Board of Intelligence Oversight...
...seems prepared to ride out a lackluster winter. He insists that he can break even if only 189 of the 345 seats on each of his flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar, and there are no elevators. The line has just four directors, including Laker...
...dozen wars," he remembers with the air of an old warden. "Estonians, for example, who had been imprisoned by the Germans, fought for the Germans, been imprisoned by the Russians, imprisoned again by the Americans." He met R.A.F. officers who had bombed Berlin in 1945 and returned for the airlift of 1948-49. The ironies altered his life. "It was," he says, "like reading the right book at the right time. I saw the right things at the right time...
...world's most neglected refugees. His 66 sea-weary passengers were Vietnamese-the most recent group of perhaps 300,000 refugees who have fled South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos since the Communist conquest. About 145,000 South Vietnamese were brought to the U.S. by American sea-and airlift after the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon collapsed. The 90,000 Laotians who have slipped over the border to Thailand and an estimated 7,000 Cambodians live in wretched refugee camps that are maintained by the United Nations. Since the fall of Saigon, anti-Communist South Vietnamese have...
...thing, King Hassan said that he was ready to send additional troops to Zaïre. For another, some of the French planes that were involved in the airlift of the Moroccans have been shifted to bases in Senegal and Chad; they can return to Zaïre on short notice. Then there is also the possibility of reinforcements from neighboring Uganda, whose mercurial dictator, Idi Amin Dada, suddenly turned up in Kinshasa last week to assure le Guide of military help if needed. Mobutu's government is gradually winning moral backing from other African states. If there...