Word: airlifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respond readily to any Ford request for humanitarian aid to relieve the agony of the war's rapidly multiplying victims. Something more substantial should be possible than the laudable, if somewhat oversentimentalized, help for orphaned children. There were hints last week that the U.S. was planning an extensive airlift of American and Vietnamese civilians from South Viet Nam. Ford has a major opportunity to help America come to terms with Viet Nam, and move on to other international problems...
...most intense insurgent pressure remains concentrated against besieged Phnom-Penh. With the Mekong River lifeline choked off, the capital is now solely dependent on the U.S. "rice birds"- DC-8s and C-130s whose pilots brave Khmer Rouge rockets to ferry in food, fuel and ammunition. Money for the airlift will be exhausted by the end of April unless the U.S. Congress, when it reconvenes April 7, surprises everybody and approves a $222 million supplemental Cambodian aid appropriation. Last week the strategically important town of Tuol Leap, only six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport...
...single one-way air ticket to Saigon on the black market jumped from $51 to $140. The traffic halted only when the military took control of the Air Viet Nam flights to provide for their own families. Then came the welcome promise that the U.S. would begin an airlift to take 10,000 people a day to Cam Ranh, a half-hour's trip by air some 200 miles to the south. But still there was panic. Even the so-called priority evacuation flight, limited to Americans and Vietnamese with proven U.S. connections, brought hundreds of people stampeding...
...officials reported that they had scraped together $20 million to keep the airlift going for another month regardless of whether Congress approves more aid. The flights also concerned Thailand's new coalition government, which said that it was considering a ban on arms shipments from the country. The announcement was an apparent attempt by the government to win the support of strong leftist groups...
Many of the planes stored at Tucson have a proud history, and from time to time, some have been pressed into service to meet a national crisis. During the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, scores of World War II transporters were hustled out of the desert sanctuary. Airworthy combat planes came out of moth balls at the outbreak of the Korean War, and hundreds of single-engine A1-E fighters that had served in Korea saw action again in Viet Nam. Recently the Pentagon ordered a number of troop-carrying helicopters back to the line...