Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER the U.S. airlift saved West Berlin a decade ago, a monument was erected to the men who lost their lives taking supplies to the beleaguered city. Last week, as West Berliners gathered at that monument to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the airlift's success, the man who led them was this week's cover subject, Mayor Willy Brandt, who was little known to the world ten years...
...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...
Skillfully edited film clips (all shot by NBCameramen) took the TV audience into the dangerous neighborhood of the East Berlin anti-Red riots of 1953, called back the high, droning traffic of the airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their flight on their first afternoon of freedom. And there was Willy Brandt, the mayor, spelling out his startling theory that there may have been too many refugees, that Moscow might flood East Germany with Russians and Poles: this in .turn would make it harder than ever to achieve a free...
...people across the U.S., 185, or 39%, did not even know that Berlin is surrounded by Communist East Germany), but there is clear agreement that the U.S. must stand fast against Russian threats. The U.S. is no more disposed to retreat from Berlin than it was during the 1948 airlift. At that time, the Gallup poll reported that 80% thought the U.S. should remain. Last week a Gallup poll showed an almost identical result: 81% favored a strong stand "even at the risk of war"; only 11% wanted to pull out while 8% had no opinion. What the voters told...
...Derge began ambushing isolated Chinese units. The Reds waited until several Khamba tribes gathered together for their summer encampment, then struck back with a savage air strafing and bombardment. The Khambas grimly surrounded a Chinese base at Kardezh in eastern Tibet, forced the Reds to supply it by airlift. Other Khambas cut roads, raided munitions depots, tied down troops. Chinese settlers brought in by the Communists wilted under the savage Tibetan climate, native hostility, armed attack. Tibetan Communists or loyal government workers proved difficult to recruit...