Word: airlifts
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...million in U.S. military aid they were granted this year and have scant hope of getting the additional $222 million President Ford is asking Congress to authorize (see box next page). Meanwhile, as the threat of starvation increased throughout the capital, the U.S. stepped up a civilian airlift of ammunition and food into Phnom-Penh from neighboring Thailand and South Viet...
Last week, with Phnom-Penh cut off by land and water, the U.S. stepped up its airlift to the besieged city. For months the U.S. has been sending ammunition into Phnom-Penh through a private contractor, Bird Air of Seattle, which uses twelve C-130s leased from the U.S. Air Force. .By last week, through Bird Air and four additional firms, the U.S. was sending in 1,200 tons of food and supplies a day aboard 17 cargo planes that made a total of 30 daily flights from Thailand and South Viet...
...flying's the same when you have rice instead of ammo," said bearded A1 Wells, 52, of Miami's Airlift International, "but it makes you feel a little safer when you're on the ground." Ken Healy, a World War II Air Force pilot who now flies for World Airways of Oakland, Calif., told TIME Correspondent Peter Range: "The best time to go into Phnom-Penh is right after they've taken a few hits. We've figured out that if you haven't had another rocket for ten minutes, then you probably...
...airlift is plainly a last-ditch emergency operation aimed at staving off imminent collapse and not a means by which Lon Nol might win the war. With the fighting going so badly for his government, the question is inevitably raised in Phnom-Penh these days as to what kind of government Cambodia might have if the ragged peasant Khmer Rouge soldiers should come marching some time soon into a capital city that most have never seen before. Would there be a bloodbath? The evidence to date is inconclusive. Recently, the insurgents slaughtered civilians in two remote provincial towns, possibly because...
...Congress decides whether or not so maintain the vise on Phnom Pehn by appropriating a supplemental fund for the airlift, we may see the most ironic turn of events in this war: Ford may get a continued airlift he doesn't really want...