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...Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe. On the shortest notice, Daly turned to two other orphan agencies, which quickly produced 60 children for the trip. Without clearance from either Saigon or Washington, Daly's planeload took off for Oakland; by week's end most of the children were in their new American homes...
...refugees are to be flown to Turkey; from there the Ankara government will resettle them in areas of northern Cyprus now held by Turks. Greek Cypriot protests that the resettlement will reinforce the de facto partitioning of the island went unheeded. Even as the demonstrators rioted, the first planeload of refugees flew out of Akrotiri for Turkey...
...twin-engine Fairchild F227 chartered from the Uruguayan air force took off from Montevideo carrying an amateur rugby team and a planeload of friends and supporters to Santiago, Chile. Most never completed their journey. The plane slammed into a mountainside at an altitude of more than 11,000 ft. Of the 45 people on board, only 32, some critically injured, were alive the next morning...
Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...
Just how easily those arrangements could become enmeshed in expressions of continuing enmity became apparent at the start of the week, when the first planeload of delegates from the Provisional Revolutionary Government arrived. South Vietnamese authorities promptly demanded that they fill out customs forms. They promptly refused to do so, since that would imply recognition of the Saigon government. For 20 hours, they sat aboard the plane. By morning, the Poles and the Americans had persuaded the South Vietnamese to waive the formality, and the Communist delegates disembarked. In the afternoon, the performance was repeated when 90 delegates arrived from...