Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds, perhaps thousands died every day, and their plight reached even into the U.S. presidential campaign. Senator Eugene McCarthy charged that the Administration had contented itself with "vain and futile gestures" in the Nigerian crisis and called on President Johnson to ask the United Nations for a "mandatory relief airlift of mercy." Hubert Humphrey said the U.S. should support any U.N. effort to move in supplies...
...Witnesses would like to see the United States, under the auspices of an organization like the Red Cross, airlift food and supplies to the Biafrans, according to Alan Berman, a graduate student in English and a faculty member at Queens College...
...says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta, Ga., and drives to his old job as a producer at WAGA-TV in Atlanta. Boeing, which employed 120 of the reservists at nearby Mc-Chord, has arranged for them to work in the plant up to four hours...
...Airlift International...
...deeper inside Biafra, thrusting into parts of Port Harcourt, the last major city in Biafran hands and Nigeria's second largest seaport after Lagos. A modern oil boomtown before the war, Port Harcourt supplied Biafra's fuel needs, acted as a vital link for its Lisbon-based airlift of arms and matériel, and-by the mere fact of its possession-served as a morale booster for Biafra and its 8,500,000 Ibo tribesmen, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu...