Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling, sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands...
...Times, Ballard noted that although "bugetary limitations" ostensibly were responsible for some of the Air Force's reluctance to support Army operations, this reluctance "reinforces tendencies within the Air Force itself." Army officials have maintained that the Air Force could not or would not provide the Army with air transport and air-ground support...
...front of and 100 miles behind the line of contact. The new policy would allow the Army to use missiles within this area, but would prevent Army planes from conducting close combat air support. The Air Force, according to Wilson, is now responsible for the major part of war transport operations...
Katzenbach, who attacked the deficiency of transport facilities in the latest Reporter magazine, scored Wilson for giving the Air Force the responsibility of carrying troops and tactical aviation. This is a phase of operations which is of lesser concern to the Air Force than to the Army, the author said...
Katzenbach doubted that the Secretary's remarks on transport facilities were motivated by the Reporter article, as A1 Newman, managing editor of the magazine, implied last week. Katzenbach revealed that several representatives from the Civil Reserve Air Fleet convinced him last week that the transport situation is really more critical than he had believed...