Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip...
...Syrians to the north squinted into Israel, as Major General Hafez Assad put it, "with their fingers tight on their triggers." Jordan's 40,000-man Arab Legion moved into position in the west, and Iraq sent 5,000 troops to help out in Syria. Algeria promised an airlift of troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle is not worthy of the name Arab." Arab preachers in countless mosques throughout the Middle East reminded Friday worshipers that anyone killed...
...hospitals and build several new ones. And since a major difficulty for civilians is getting to a hospital in time for treatment to be effective, Major General James W. Humphreys, who has been in charge of U.S. medical assistance to Viet Nam, has been trying to get helicopters to airlift casualties, as is now done for the military wounded...
...neutralist, part Communist-that by treaty is off limits to all foreign troops. But when the North Vietnamese moved in, the U.S., at the request of Prince Souvanna Phouma, provided aid and advisers in civilian clothes to the royalist-neutralist coalition fighting the Pathet Lao. American planes now daily airlift food and arms into remote areas of Laos loyal to the central government of Vientiane. The U.S. equipped the Royal Laotian Air Force, and U.S. pilots sometimes fly the planes with the tri-headed Elephant Lao markings...
...meantime, the two governments have suspended their talks until the airlines reach agreement. At that point, U.S. officials will be mired deep in an even stickier problem. The Saigon government is also demanding - incredibly-payments of premiums (in all probability fat landing fees) by Military Airlift Command contract carriers such as Slick, Continental and World Airways, hauling war cargoes and personnel. It goes without saying that U.S. officials feel that a Flying Tiger CL-44 carrying military cargo should no more have to pay a landing fee to Saigon than an F-4 Phantom returning from an air strike against...