Word: ilyushins
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...million contract for Soviet development of their nation's mineral and industrial resources. In the Hotel de France in Guinea's steaming capital of Conakry, the lingua franca of the lobby has shifted from French to Russian. At Leopoldville and Stanleyville in tne Congo, Soviet Ilyushin transports buzz familiarly in and out, debouching badly needed food -plus intelligence officers, tactical advisers for premier Patrice Lumumba's army and, according to Western intelligence reports, arms and ammunition...
Landing at Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair...
Other nations contributed. Britain's R.A.F. flew in 850 troops: Ethiopia airlifted some 600 of its 1,000 troops in its own air transports. Even Russia got in on the act, sent three turboprop Ilyushin transports to ferry Ghanian troops from Accra to the Congo.* But overall, it was overwhelmingly a U.S. show. U.S. planes brought in 75% of the troops, 19 of every 20 tons of supplies...
Change of Mood. But when his white Ilyushin 18 turboprop set down in East Berlin, Khrushchev emerged in a new character-sober, sedate, mantled in almost Roman dignity. East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht greeted him nervously; he had first learned Nikita was coming only when Khrushchev casually remarked to newsmen in Paris that he "might" stop off on his way home. Khrushchev gave one glowering glance at a stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice...
Throughout the applause, Nikita Khrushchev and Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky were unsmiling and wooden-faced. The next day they climbed again into the white Ilyushin 18 and flew back to Moscow...