Word: airlifts
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...Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran airlift as a flight engineer...
...airlift runs a delicate course between the thunderstorms always encountered at night, and the radar-directed anti-aircraft fire which grows heavier as the storms fade. When he began flying for the outfit, it had six Constellations and one DC-7. Of the Constellations, one was hijacked and flown to Madrid; a second was impounded when it made a forced landing on Malta (when its flight plan said it was going to New York). A third crashed in the jungle killing all aboard, and a fourth was blown up in Bisau, reportedly by a South African...
...unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known God's Word, I would have become a boxer." He suffers from cataracts, sciatica...
...Major General John K. Boles Jr., even spent close to an hour pleading with the recalcitrant troopers, persuaded 17 men to abandon the sit-in and return to barracks. By arresting the 43, in the parking lot, the Army ruled out bringing a charge of refusal to board the airlift to Chicago later in the day. The Army might also have tried them en masse. Instead, they will go before individual courts, accused of disobeying an order...
...Biafra's other war-on hunger-the Red Cross resumed night relief flights that had been interrupted two weeks ago when federal troops started to fire on its planes. Together with flights chartered by Caritas, the international Catholic relief organization, the Biafran airlift brought to starving Biafrans some 30 tons of food and med icine per night-still only a fraction of the 1,000 tons a day that are needed. At week's end negotiators who have been meeting for four weeks in Addis Ababa made marked progress in clearing the logjam holding up large-scale relief...