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Army Air Power. At the time of the Key West agreement, the Army had about 200 aircraft, used mostly for liaison and artillery spotting. Today it has about 4,000 (helicopters, light planes, transports) and is grasping avidly for more, which it says it needs to provide airlift and close support for its divisions. Lieut. General James Gavin, farseeing chief of Army Research and Development, says that "20,000 planes for the Army might not be enough." Last week the Army officially demanded long-range, high-speed aircraft to track its missiles. The Army grab for air power is seen...
...government announced that it was buying another 175 helicopters for use in Algeria, and organized an emergency airlift of 10,000 Senegalese troops from French West Africa. Under protective arrest, Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj, who three weeks ago organized the strike of 10,000 Algerians in Paris, was transferred from mainland France to an island off the Brittany coast. Reflecting new allied sympathy for France's efforts, SHAPE Commander General Al Gruenther gave his approval to France's withdrawal of two first-class divisions from NATO's European shield in Germany, declaring that Algeria was "indispensable...
Postwar West Germany has had three singular Socialist mayors who stood as stoutly against Communism as they did against Naziism, stood for alliance with the West against the dogma of their party's national leaders. Berlin's Ernst Reuter, defender of freedom's outpost during airlift days, died two years ago; soon afterward Hamburg's Max Brauer, sometime naturalized citizen of the U.S., was defeated at the polls. That left Wilhelm Kaisen, rebuilder of Bremen. Last week in the city-state of Bremen, smallest of West Germany's states, voters handed Kaisen's Social...
...this point, another country got into the act. India, which has its own grievances against Pakistan, prepared to set up an airlift from Amritsar over the Khyber Pass to Kabul. The ambitious Afghans were grateful, but even more gratified by a handsome offer from the Russians: a five-year transit guarantee for their goods. Glowed Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Naim: "If one door is slammed shut and another is opened, we will go through it." After 100 years, the Russian bear's long vigil on the Oxus was beginning...
...Pacific Airlift...