Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes. For another thing, there were those 450 safe votes flown in from the U.S., which helped the ruling coalition to hang on to all but one of the 39 seats that it was defending in the 60-man council. If the well-heeled Christian Democrats thought the airlift worth the $64,000 or more that it cost the party, so did the shuttle voters. Said Secondo Moretti, a Detroit bricklayer: "I'd travel twice as far as this to vote as long as they...
Though he was well aware that Irish politics proved the graveyard of many a 19th century British government, Wilson reluctantly moved 300 troops into Londonderry, followed by an airlift of 600 to Belfast. By week's end, with the "full consent" of the Ulster government, an additional 1,000 British reinforcements were put on alert to move into Northern Ireland. Ulster, for all intents and purposes, had turned itself over to the foreign peacekeepers...
...White House state dinner, Nixon invited many of the Americans who helped guide West Germany in the immediate postwar period. Among the guests were General Lucius Clay, postwar U.S. Military Governor of Germany, John McCloy, first civilian High Commissioner, and Dean Acheson, Secretary of State during the Berlin airlift. Kiesinger reminisced with the old German hands as the Marine chamber orchestra played Strauss waltzes...
...Housing Airlift. The tribe has become almost totally dependent on the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The bureau's heavy-handed paternalism has produced bitterness and lassitude. Recently, for example, a Government-financed airlift of five prefabricated houses into Supai stirred more dust than excitement...
...that reinforcements could be moved swiftly from the U.S. to South Korea if needed. It may have succeeded too well. The South Korean army already guards all but 18 miles of the 151-mile frontier with North Korea. South Korean officials were impressed with the speed of the U.S. airlift. But they are now worried that the U.S. may try to pull some of its forces out of Korea on the grounds that in any emergency, it could easily fly them right back. No matter how rapidly U.S. troops can be flown in, Seoul would be much happier if they...