Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reverse airlift to Angola...
...Iranian army sent 700 soldiers, four medical teams and many rescue workers to help house 1000 survivors in tents along Tabas' airport runway. Planes dispatched by the Iranian air force maintained an airlift of blankets, food, water, tents and medical supplies...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--Government forces surrounded the city of Isteli in northern Nicaragua by airlift yesterday to attack the last guerrilla strongholds there...
...regime with nearly $900 million in military assistance for his wars against Somalia and secessionist rebels in Eritrea, has not done anything remotely comparable to alleviate the internal catastrophes. As usual, it is Western nations working with the FAO that are providing emergency aid to feed starving Ethiopians by airlift before rains make the affected provinces unreachable. The U.S. alone has contributed nearly $2.5 million in the past six months to help Ethiopians...
Behind closed doors, there was sharp debate among the NATO leaders over what stand the alliance should take on Africa. West Germany, France, Belgium and the U.S. were said to support some form of counteraction to the Soviet involvement, perhaps along the lines of the limited U.S. airlift that ferried Belgian and French paratroopers to Zaïre and that last weekend began flying in Moroccan troops to take their place as a peace-keeping force. But in the end, the NATO leaders softened their final communiqué to a bland warning to the Soviets against exploiting "situations of instability and regional...