Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafra. The new U.S. initiative is based on the projection that, if mass famine is to be averted, Biafra should be receiving 40,000 to 50,000 tons of food a month. Only an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 tons now reach the territory via a clandestine nighttime airlift sponsored by relief organizations...
...arrests. Czechoslovaks remember all too well that in Hungary the roundup of dissidents did not begin until three months after the 1956 uprising was crushed, and did not peak until six months after the event. Fearing that possibility, some 600 scientists have left the country, and last week an airlift began bringing the first Czechoslovak refugees from Vienna to the U.S. They are mostly from Czechoslovakia's intellectual elite. A factory hand summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks who remain: "We will work even less than before; we will be the greatest country of nonworkers...
...Aristotle Socrates Onassis. This time they were the center of rapt international attention. From practically every capital and every level of society, the guests and members of the wedding came, by jetliner, shuttle plane and helicopter, to the mountainous island in the sunny Ionian Sea. From Holland an elaborate airlift brought in mountains of tulips, and lemon buds to be woven into garlands for the bridal pair. From the mainland came Father Polykarpos Athanassion, pastor of the Kapnikarea Church in central Athens. Angelo of Athens descended on the isle to attend to the world's most closely scrutinized coiffure. Bouzouki...
Three years later, as chief of the U.S. air forces in Europe LeMay was an architect of the Berlin airlift. One day LeMay flew to Berlin, found himself waiting on the runway for 40 minutes. Back in Frankfurt, he told his staff: Get it fixed " In three days, when he dropped in again, the delay had been reduced to five minutes. "See if you can get it better," he grunted...
Trying Hard. The speed and scope of the allied response underlined the crucial importance of keeping the Long Tau open. Though airlift supply has achieved remarkable results, 98% of all allied war matériel still enters Viet Nam by sea, and a third of this total is unloaded at Saigon by ships that must run the Long Tau gauntlet...