Word: airlifting
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...genuine humanitarian sentiments underlying the airlift did not spring up overnight. For the adoptive parents, the process of bringing Vietnamese children to the U.S. had been under way for months, if not years. The precarious status of the Saigon regime triggered an outpouring of sympathy for the orphans that made possible their quick evacuation...
Critics of the airlift also questioned the assumption that Vietnamese orphans would be better off if they were adopted by Americans. Traditionally, Vietnamese orphans are cared for by members of their extended family, or by friends from their community or village; the children's milieu is thus altered as little as possible. When the evacuation began, many South Vietnamese found it doubly repugnant that their waifs were being transplanted into an utterly alien culture and given American names. Many Americans were not surprised when Saigon announced last week that with 1,700 children already gone, it would tighten...
...Force hastily dispatched a C-5A Galaxy cargo plane-and it crashed (see page 8). The tragedy only intensified the fever pitch of rescue plans, and the Government pledged to carry on its airlift. Tens of thousands of Americans deluged adoption agencies with calls. The State Department set up a toll-free number (800-368-1180) for would-be adopters. At one point, more than 1,000 callers a minute were being turned away by busy signals...
...swashbuckling 52-year-old Daly is anything but the conventional airline executive. A combative, hard-drinking broth of an Irishman and an Archie Bunker lookalike, he seems to thrive on high drama and wrangles with Government bureaucrats. In the nearly two decades since his piston-engine DC-4s airlifted Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in 1956, Daly-who started with two war-surplus C-46Fs in 1950-has built World into the largest of the nation's supplemental airlines. Originally, he prospered largely by battling for and winning Military Airlift Command (MAC) contracts; lately, he has successfully expanded...
...operations. But Daly brushes aside any idea that his unauthorized Danang flight and his criticism of U.S. refugee policy could endanger either World's fare application or his chances of obtaining additional military contracts. "I don't think MAC can dispense with us," he says. "Anyway, the airlift was my own personal decision, and I'm paying for it out of my own-not the corporate-pocket." His estimate of the total cost of his refugee flights: about $1 million...