Word: airlifts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although he does not speak Russian, Watson has some firsthand knowledge of Soviet life. During World War II, he spent six months in Russia as part of the Lend-Lease airlift program, piloting Army Air Force transports that carried goods across the Bering Sea from Alaska. With other business and labor leaders, academics and politicians, Watson was a member of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations that in 1977 urged cooperation with the Soviets on arms control, science, cultural affairs and trade...
...hope that the Soviet Union would be an ally in peace as in war. Glancing up from his desk, he told his counsel, Clark Clifford, that Stalin would have to be confronted in Greece and Turkey, and so the Truman Doctrine was launched. But even through the Berlin airlift and the Korean War, Truman searched for contacts with the Soviet Union, whether ballet dancers or scientists. Eisenhower continued to probe for the elusive understanding at Camp David and Paris, even as he sent the U-2 into Soviet airspace...
Miller: Well, I say let's make an airlift to Russia. I don't think nothing is impossible, if you believe...
...going to airlift to Russia...
...second missile-armed destroyer from Vladivostok to join the squadron of 13 Soviet ships already cruising near Viet Nam. A U.S. aircraft carrier left the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines to join a Seventh Fleet task force in the South China Sea. Moscow stepped up its resupply airlift to Viet Nam -in plain view of Holtzman and Evans at the Hanoi airport, as it happened-and was reported to have sent senior Soviet military officers to the Vietnamese capital...