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...Airlift. From the outset, Wilson found that Smith could not be budged from his bedrock position: Rhodesian independence, based on the 1961 constitution and sanctified by a "sacred treaty." At their first meeting, Wilson handed Smith a letter from...
...Rhodesia's capability of making life tough for landlocked, black-ruled Zambia to the north, which relies on Rhodesian rails to carry its copper to market, Wilson raised the prospects of a joint U.S.-British Berlin-style airlift. That was faintly ludicrous, since expensive, airborne copper could hardly compete for long, but it was meant to demonstrate that Britain was not about to be bullied by threats of Rhodesian countermoves...
...agreement, according to Washington, will do away entirely with the dangerous small-boat traffic from the port of Camarioca. Instead, the U.S. will set up an airlift of at least two flights a day-six days a week-between Miami and Varadero 70 miles east of Havana. The flights will carry 65 refugees each, or from 3,000 to 4,000 a month, and begin about ten days after the official announcement. More than 150,000 Cubans are expected to sign up. Immediate relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave...
...commanded by Major General Harry William Osborn Kinnard. At the same time, an advance party of 1,000 men, 254 tons of equipment and nine "huey" helicopters was quietly whisked to Viet Nam from the division's Fort Benning base in a secret, seven-day airlift...
...could transport both passengers and air cargo on international flights at much lower fares than at present. It will fly 30% faster (550 m.p.h.) than Russia's huge AN-22, which is only a turboprop, carry twice the payload. Ten C-5As. could have handled the entire Berlin airlift, which required more than 140 lumbering...