Word: airlifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcing its airlift last week, the French government, significantly, called Zaire "a victim of armed subversive activities originating from abroad." In a TV speech, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing said flatly that no French troops would fight in Zaire, but emphasized that France had not wanted its African friends "to feel abandoned when their security is threatened." Answering protests that his support for Mobutu was reckless, Giscard declared that it was absurd to speculate that his action could lead to "another French Viet...
...Katangese-who are purportedly led by General Nathaniel Nbumba, the former Katangese police commissioner-may have been trained by Cubans in Angola. Almost certainly, the Angolans and their Cuban allies tolerated or approved the invasion plans. Mobutu, insisting that the rebels are "led by Cubans," appealed for an emergency airlift of arms and ammunition from the U.S. to stop them...
Through the bitter German winter of 1948, West Berliners were kept alive by the Berlin airlift, a dramatic cold war counterploy to surmount a Soviet-inspired blockade of the city. Two million tons of food, fuel and clothing were flown into Tempelhof and other airports by U.S. and British cargo planes on 277,569 flights over a 15-month period. This year, with two-thirds of the U.S. under the siege of winter, Berliners responded with aid of their own. In a month-long Help America fund drive that ends this week, they raised $500,000 to help the American...
...former business associate, whom he met by chance one night in a pub, wrote out a ?38,000 check on the spot to finance a Laker scheme to buy twelve planes from British Overseas Airways Corp. With them, Laker flew 4,000 sorties in the 1948-49 Berlin airlift. "We made a lot of money," he recalls, "but we bloody well earned every penny...
...Erhard. For example, harsh words were exchanged between Bonn and Washington during the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. On the one had, Brandt was irritated by Washington's failure to consult its Allies during the conflict; on the other hand, Washington criticized West European refusal to provide the American airlift with logistical support. Washington added that developments in the Middle East concerned the security of the Atlantic Alliance, and that the Europeans, certainly the Germans, should unquestioningly support United States policy there...