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...spend their money on combat hardware rather than on cargo ships and planes. Since 1981, the number of U.S. "mobile logistics ships" (vessels that carry petroleum, ammunition and other cargo to resupply battle fleets at sea) has increased by exactly one, from 72 to 73. Some 50 new transport planes are on order to supplement the present fleet of 70 C-5A Galaxies and 234 C-141 Star-Lifters. But the new planes will not begin flying for two years...
Bodybags form a line across the tarmac. Wounded servicemen, dazed and confused, are wheeled into the hold of a military transport. Scenes from a decade past interrupt the sterile excitement of Sunday Night Football. The grisly images are beamed from Lebanon, but the fears they evoke emerge from the seemingly forgotten tragedy of the Vietnam...
...revealed last week that the White House wanted to revive a plan, first floated by Henry Kissinger in 1975, to train and equip up to two Jordanian army divisions to serve as a special strike force in the gulf region. Under the proposal, the divisions would receive C-130 transport planes, armored personnel carriers and Driver-crossing equipment. The project, vigorously opposed by Jerusalem, was still being discussed with Congress when Israelis leaked word of it in hopes of killing the plan...
Rebel and South African attacks have damaged bridges, railways and hydroelectric dams. The distribution of food has been severely hampered, while repeated UNITA offensives have disabled the Benguela railway, which used to transport copper from Zaire and Zambia to the Atlantic. That disruption alone will cost Angola up to $100 million annually in unearned transit fees. UNITA claims to control at least one third of Angola, mainly in the southeast, although the government seems to retain its hold over the major towns...
Near midnight the first C-47 transport planes reached their objective near Cherbourg. Men snapped their rip cords over static lines, waited, crouching. The command came, and they leaped. White, yellow and red parachutes blossomed in the night. Men by the thousands floated down upon captive France...