Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, evacuation planes and flight crews are on alert for the first airlift out of Hanoi, expected to come some time this week. A fully staffed hospital, complete with 50 doctors, 800 nurses and turquoise sheets, stands ready to receive as many as 150 men at once. The personal escorts assigned to each prisoner have begun to arrive. According to Major Joel S. Hetland, one of the officers on escort duty, they are being briefed with advice from former prisoners like "Don't ask your man how it was up there...
...Truman Doctrine that shattered the long U.S. tradition of peacetime isolation by supporting Greece and Turkey against Communist threats. It was Truman's Marshall Plan that committed U.S. resources to the rebuilding of Europe. Later Truman defied the Soviet blockade of Berlin and risked war by authorizing the airlift. Still later he met the Communist invasion of South Korea by ordering U.S. forces into the field...
...bread and milk powder from CARE were arriving at Las Mercedes. President Nixon ordered "an all-out effort" and U.S. Air Force C-141 and C-5 transports shuttled in with medical supplies, bulldozers and other items at a tonnage rate that exceeded the first days of the Berlin airlift of 1948. At least 20 countries joined the relief effort, including Cuba, which dispatched a medical team...
...BUGABOOS. In the wilder reaches of British Columbia, the two dozen peaks of the Bugaboo range are unique. No lifts climb the glaciers and forested hillsides. Helicopters airlift skiers to the mountaintops, and guides lead visitors down through deep powder. Good legs and advanced technique are essential; so is a fat bank account. A week, including helicopter lifts, runs about...
...order to prove its good faith and to underscore its demand that illegal emigrants be punished, Cuba recently informed the U.S. that 3,400 Cubans have been processed for legal departure to the U.S. In response, Washington announced that the refugee airlift, which has brought 265,000 Cubans into the U.S., would be resumed this week. The airlift was halted last May when Cuba announced that there were no more Cubans eligible to make the trip...