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...history of the past 40 years-West German schoolbooks have tended to skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even naively perceived as a fading and largely unnecessary relic...
...letter to Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who called for the GAO investigation, Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci argued that the Pentagon's decision to buy the C-5B "was based on a careful analysis of our airlift needs." Indeed, experts predict that the joint congressional committee responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp...
...views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers...
...pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks for two weeks. The Department of Transportation wanted to stay out of a war zone. The two departments pushed the ball back and forth. After 48 hours, as a result, an American airlift was organized. Subsequently, it was alleged that the airlift was deliberately delayed to pressure Israel to accept a ceasefire. This was not the case. Bureaucratic foot dragging and logistical problems were the only causes of the delay...
...Thursday, Oct. 11, the Soviet airlift included flights not only to Syria but also to Egypt and even Iraq. Later in the day we learned that three Soviet airborne divisions had been put on alert (still later, the figure grew to seven divisions). That morning Israel was carrying the air war deep into Syria, and by the end of the day, forward Israeli units were only 20 miles from Damascus...