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...million in U.S. military aid they were granted this year and have scant hope of getting the additional $222 million President Ford is asking Congress to authorize (see box next page). Meanwhile, as the threat of starvation increased throughout the capital, the U.S. stepped up a civilian airlift of ammunition and food into Phnom-Penh from neighboring Thailand and South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Once More, Phnom-Penh Fights to Live | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Last week, with Phnom-Penh cut off by land and water, the U.S. stepped up its airlift to the besieged city. For months the U.S. has been sending ammunition into Phnom-Penh through a private contractor, Bird Air of Seattle, which uses twelve C-130s leased from the U.S. Air Force. .By last week, through Bird Air and four additional firms, the U.S. was sending in 1,200 tons of food and supplies a day aboard 17 cargo planes that made a total of 30 daily flights from Thailand and South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Once More, Phnom-Penh Fights to Live | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...flying's the same when you have rice instead of ammo," said bearded A1 Wells, 52, of Miami's Airlift International, "but it makes you feel a little safer when you're on the ground." Ken Healy, a World War II Air Force pilot who now flies for World Airways of Oakland, Calif., told TIME Correspondent Peter Range: "The best time to go into Phnom-Penh is right after they've taken a few hits. We've figured out that if you haven't had another rocket for ten minutes, then you probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Once More, Phnom-Penh Fights to Live | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...airlift is plainly a last-ditch emergency operation aimed at staving off imminent collapse and not a means by which Lon Nol might win the war. With the fighting going so badly for his government, the question is inevitably raised in Phnom-Penh these days as to what kind of government Cambodia might have if the ragged peasant Khmer Rouge soldiers should come marching some time soon into a capital city that most have never seen before. Would there be a bloodbath? The evidence to date is inconclusive. Recently, the insurgents slaughtered civilians in two remote provincial towns, possibly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Once More, Phnom-Penh Fights to Live | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...Congress decides whether or not so maintain the vise on Phnom Pehn by appropriating a supplemental fund for the airlift, we may see the most ironic turn of events in this war: Ford may get a continued airlift he doesn't really want...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: Ours To Lose | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

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