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...those Cubans who prefer to take another direction, the U.S. last week held out a tantalizing hope. The State Department offered to sponsor a free airlift for more than 20,000 Cubans still waiting in Havana with visas or special waivers to come to the U.S. The $350,000 to charter ten Pan American flights a day for 20 days would come out of emergency foreign-aid funds. There was only one catch: the U.S. had not told Castro. At week's end, as Pan American's third plane approached Havana, Castro suddenly limited round-trip flights between...
...would plague him later when he became President. The Russians, violating their pledge to help reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising...
...Will. Thanks to the experience of the 1948 airlift, both Berlin and the West are far 'better equipped to face any new Soviet (or East German) blockade. The city's government has stockpiled more than a year's worth of food, fuel and clothing, has recently stepped up the gathering of emergency supplies. The U.S. Air Force, which once saved Berlin with slow-moving EUR-475 and EUR-545, now has five to seven times the airlift capacity of a decade ago, with its swift C-13O turboprops and slow but massive (56,000-lb. capacity...
What might such plans include? First and most clearly, the U.S. could revive the Berlin airlift, which in 1948-49 humiliated Stalin's Russia. Despite a lot of loose and unknowing talk about Communist electronic devices making air navigation into West Berlin impossible, the airlift remains perfectly feasible. Beyond that, there is the opportunity for the West to force its way through the Autobahn corridor to West Berlin, since right of access to the city is guaranteed by international law. Indeed, it would not make much difference whether papers were stamped by East German gate guards or-as they...
After the shooting war, LeMay entered the cold war, supervising the Berlin airlift and frequently piloting cargo planes himself. (He still grabs the controls of a jet whenever he can.) In 1948 he returned to the U.S. to take command of the Strategic Air Command-the force of nuclear-armed intercontinental bombers that was, and in operational terms remains, the nation's most effective deterrent against all-out atomic...