Word: airlifted
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...began with a quiet Dutch trooplift to West New Guinea aboard KLM commercial flights. As long as the soldiers wore civvies, carried no arms and traveled aboard regularly scheduled commercial airlines-as they had done for months-nobody complained. But fortnight ago the Dutch decided to step up the airlift by chartering two special flights, and Japan promptly closed Tokyo International Airport to the jets for refueling. Forced to find an alternate route, the Dutch won U.S. permission to refuel at Anchorage, Honolulu and Wake Island...
...been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage and one of his engines had been peppered with small-arms fire aimed skyward by Tshombe's own house guards, leading the U.S. to suspend the airlift for a day until the U.N. could guarantee fighter escorts...
...Bloody Noses. In West Berlin Bierstuben, the man most credited with boosting the morale of West Berliners is the hero of the 1948 airlift, Special Presidential Envoy Lucius D. Clay, 64, who has become the image of a calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed...
...primed local industries to supply spare parts. After four exhilarating years, fearful of becoming an expatriate, Jones returned to California and signed on with Rand Corp., the Air Force's private brain factory. There he wrote a classic study which demonstrated that jet power would make massive military airlift economically feasible...
...none at all. His Royal Laotian Army is better trained and equipped than it was at the time of the cease-fire last May. But the most optimistic Western observers doubt whether it is yet a match for the Communist Pathet Lao, which has been continuously supplied by Soviet airlift. Commented a U.S. expert: "The problem is still one of leadership, and without that Laotians have no will to fight...