Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chartered DC-8 out of Los Angeles was bound for a city that has been off-limits to U.S. flights since 1975: Phnom-Penh. On board were 82,000 lbs. of food and medicine and 134 lbs. of San Francisco Bureau Chief Gavin Scott. The airlift, "Operation California," was sponsored by ten American corporations and church groups. Scott, who was one of four journalists allowed to hitch a ride, thus became one of the few American newsmen in years to be given a firsthand look inside the capital of war-ravaged Cambodia. His report on that extraordinary two-day sojourn...
...hour trip in a windowless cargo plane was a little tedious," says Scott of his journey, "but in 20 years as a TIME correspondent, few stories have proved more riveting." Since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia, Operation California agents had to arrange their mission with the Cambodian embassy in Moscow. "Bona fides was eventually established with help from the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia," Scott explains, "but a green light came only four days before we took...
...Korat Air Force Base and interviewed the kid said to have dropped the last bomb." Scott's welcome last week was not marred by the hostilities of the past. "The Cambodians were glad to see us," he says. "They were grateful for the food and medicine that Operation California brought and anxious to demonstrate the calamitous situation in which that soft and lovely country finds itself...
...force of world opinion. Private relief efforts were also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed by two former antiwar activists, Llewellyn Werner, 30, and Richard Walden, 33. Aboard the flight was TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. His report on a 48-hour visit to this strife-torn land...
...Gerstenblatts entered the cookie business in 1973 when they moved to California in search of more interesting jobs. Trained as a social worker and possessed of a degree it took him ten years to earn, Sid resembles everybody's Jewish grandfather, with his shock of white hair, and grey eyes framed by sensible glasses, except for the "groovyisms" of this year and last with which he sprinkles his speech. He designed a non-profit dental program in Vermont and health center in Rhode Island while his wife worked as a nurse and a consultant...