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Word: airlifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...towns of Pleiku, Kontum and Ban Me Thuot, they still range at will through the mountainous countryside. Since the Viet Cong blew out three of Route 19's bridges some six weeks ago, the highlands' vital western tier of towns was accessible only by air. Despite an airlift that brought hundreds of tons a week into Pleiku, supplies were growing critically short when Saigon decided that Route 19 had to be reopened at any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Battle for the Hills | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...monsoon mud. Moreover, the Laotian anti-Communists now have effective insurgent bands afield in Red territory. They consist mainly of 6,000 American-supplied Meo tribesmen, tough little primitives skilled in the savage techniques of ambush and night assault. Meo loyalty has been sealed by a U.S. airlift of rice ($6,500,000 worth this year alone), which feeds 160,000 tribesmen. Along with the kernels come rifles, grenades and ammunition to replace the traditional Meo crossbows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The Silent Sideshow | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...Approved in the House Armed Services Committee $14.8 billion for new aircraft, missiles and ships, along with a proposal to change the name of the Military Air Transport Service to the Military Airlift Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Congress: Work Done | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...fellow to watch out for is Scott. Only last summer Scott was the dashing, heroic flyer in Leon Uris' sweaty saga about the Berlin airlift. Now here he is again, successfully making the transition to civilian life as an idealistic, heroic young automotive executive. His battles in Detroit, working for Author Gilbert, are as simple as when Uris used him in Berlin. He fights for honest salesmanship and for improvements in the product. He indignantly opposes a loudmouthed supplier who is bribing and blackmailing Tony. At the end it looks very much as though Scott will marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Lizzie | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...knuckle under to harassment. In the nuclear age, Gibraltar's strategic importance has sharply diminished, but the symbolic value of the fortress known to Homer as the Pillar of Hercules remains. Said one British official: "We'll keep the Rock if we have to supply it by airlift until the Spanish cut out this nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Embattled Rock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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