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...Matter of Policy. After months of turndowns, small hellos and evasions, the sponsors of the student airlift found themselves suddenly in the chips and in the news. All of the 250 students come from Kenya and other British areas in East Africa, and had been largely rounded up by Kenya Labor Leader Tom Mboya. A U.S. organization called the African American Students Foundation lined up scholarships for them at U.S. universities and colleges. The big need was transportation money. In December and again in January, the foundation asked the State Department for a $100,000 grant. The answer...
Kennedy offered to contribute part of the airlift expenses from his family's Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation (named after the brother killed in World War II) and to look around for other private funds to help the grounded students. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy's brother-in-law and managing director of the family foundation, found no uncommitted funds in other charitable foundations, in the end recommended that the Kennedy Foundation put up the entire $100,000, and provide unstipulated help for students during their stay...
...Defense Secretary Thomas Gates-called for spending about $476 million more, $150 million of it in fiscal 1961 (ending next June 30). The money will be distributed among a variety of projects: developing the B70 super-bomber, modernizing Army equipment, building more Polaris submarines and missiles, increasing airlift capability, expanding the Strategic Air Command airborne alert, and speeding up development of the spy-satellite Samos. They are all expensive items, and the extra money will not go far among them...
...those who wondered at the smoothness of the operation, the Air Force had a reminder that much experience has been gained since the famed 1948-49 Berlin airlift. In 1958 the Air Force transported 8,000,000 Ibs. of equipment and 8,000 troops to Lebanon; last February it airlifted 1,000 tons of supplies to earth quake-ravaged Agadir in Morocco and, in recent months, gave a repeat performance in devastated Chile. Says Colonel Merritt in proud understatement: "It's just routine...
...Force, which can operate out of some 250 worldwide bases, one of the biggest problems is how best to deploy its forces in an emergency. Sudden situations-such as last week's Congo airlift, in which U.S. planes played a significant role-call for quick responses. Last week the Air Force took a step toward more effective emergency responses to even bigger crises. It announced a $40 million contract for an automatic global communications-computer system that will keep constant tab on its men, missiles and planes, tell how best to use them...