Word: airlifts
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When we turned to the airlift, Nixon showed his old courage...
...Pentagon had located three giant C-5A jet transports that were available to fly 60 to 80 tons of supplies each directly to Israel. "Do it now!" he urged. By Sunday morning he agreed that the airlift should be a straightforward American military operation. "We are going to get blamed just as much for three planes as for 300," he told me. He was right...
...warned Dobrynin: "We are now going to wash our hands of it and let nature take its course." I informed the British Ambassador, Lord Cromer, that we were starting an airlift to Israel. Cromer asked: "What will be your posture when the Arabs start screaming oil at you?" "Defiance," I replied, playing Churchill. "Just defiance?" queried Cromer. "It is going to be rough, won't it?" "We have no choice," I said...
...airlift, meanwhile, was proceeding in stunning fashion...
...uncommon in South Florida to see a stream of young people come up to a teller and count out just under $10,000 from overstuffed shopping bags for deposit. The major operators, who find this too cumbersome, have initiated a reverse airlift, sometimes using the same planes that fly drugs into Florida to take suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports...