Word: airlifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Hughes Airlift...
...several weeks, Howard Hughes himself had been curiously receding from the affair, while the Clifford Irvings & Co. dominated the scene. Last week the billionaire re-entered the bizarre drama. In an operation only slightly less complicated than the Berlin airlift, he moved his entire headquarters from Paradise Island in the Bahamas to Managua, Nicaragua...
However Hughes traveled, an extensive airlift began on Wednesday night to remove his personal belongings from the ninth-floor suite at the Britannia Beach. Workers loaded three flatbed trucks with his paraphernalia: a refrigerator, a hospital bed with railings, a hospital stand of the kind used to hold aloft blood plasma, six television sets, many cartons of purified water, motorized reclining chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like...
...April 9, 1971, General R. David, deputy commander of the Marine Corps, said that in case U.S. troops in South Vietnam were seriously endangered, Marine units on board ships off the coast of Vietnam would land in thirty minutes, and the Third Division of Marines would arrive by airlift from Okinawa in five hours...
...Pakistan. There was also a report that the Soviet Union was using Cairo's military airbase Almaza as a refueling stop in flying reinforcements to India. Some 30 giant Antonov-12 transports, each capable of carrying two dismantled MIGs or two SAM batteries, reportedly touched down last week. The airlift was said to have displeased the Egyptians, who are disturbed over India's role in the war. For its part, Washington stressed that its SEATO and CENTO treaties with Pakistan in no way bind it to come...