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...spokesperson for Massachusetts General Hospital also was unaware of any current plans to airlift victims to Boston...
...Rumbek In the largest such operation ever, the U.N. Children's Fund airlifted more than 2,800 demobilized child soldiers from the frontlines of the war in southern Sudan. The airlift, conducted over five days, followed a pledge last October by John Garang, leader of the guerrilla Sudan People's Liberation Army, to demobilize all of his young fighters, who ranged in age from eight to 18. unicef director Carol Bellamy called the evacuations "a marker of the growing global recognition that children should never be made instruments of adult conflicts and violence...
...Atlantic Alliance. Yawn. Or perhaps a ritual bow is the more appropriate response. It's a Great Worthy, one of those things politicians shower with clichés about D-day and the Berlin Airlift before shifting their speeches to the interesting stuff. We heard it last week when George W. Bush met Tony Blair for the first time to wave the torch of the Anglo-American "special relationship." Said Bush: "This is a chance for me to tell the Prime Minister how dedicated my administration will be to an alliance that has made a huge difference in the world...
...Donald Rumsfeld recently delivered a major speech on transatlantic ties, he never uttered the words "European Union." That captures Washington's view that Europeans fuss too much over the fine points of their multilateral architecture and not enough over their military capabilities, still heavily dependent upon the U.S. for airlift, intelligence and modern equipment...
...American force to help protect any evacuation. The sentiment of our military, DOD and CIA colleagues was to get out fast and now." But the newly declassified record also shows that the Commander in Chief insisted that the U.S. had a moral and humanitarian obligation to airlift out as many South Vietnamese as possible and bring them to America. At Ford's behest, Kissinger cabled Martin on April 24. "We are amazed at the small number of Vietnamese being evacuated, considering the substantial amount of aircraft available. I know you feel, as we do, a heavy moral obligation to evacuate...