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...lifted off smoothly from Iceland's Keflavik airfield. Minutes later a sister ship followed, bearing the same blue and white colors. The two giant Soviet aircraft, heavily laden, were on the second leg of an 8,000-mile journey from northern Russia to deliver relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Peru...
Massive Sweeps. Cambodia's survival will require many other drastic changes, including the rescue of its stricken economy. Rubber exports, which account for one-fourth of the country's foreign exchange, are down to a trickle, and will soon halt altogether. Rice exports, which account for more than half, are likely to drop by nearly 60%. Still, Cambodia's most immediate needs are military. So far help has come almost entirely from the South Vietnamese. More than 25,000 ARVN regulars remained in Cambodia after the U.S. departure, conducting massive sweeps north, northwest and northeast of Phnom...
Peru and Rumania share the fate of having been stricken by the worst natural disasters in their histories. Both also are mavericks within the prevailing political systems in their parts of the world. Thus, last week, international aid efforts mixed politics with the human drama of rescue and recovery...
...wake of the worst recorded disaster in Peru's history, at least 41 nations have sent supplies or rescue teams to help the stricken country dig out from the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake, which caused massive floods and landslides that left 100,000 people injured and 800,000 homeless. One Peruvian expert estimated that the damage would reach $500 million, and the death toll, which stood at 50,000, seemed likely to rise even higher. Rescuers were led by the stench to bodies buried beneath mounds of rubble...
Other countries sent transport planes winging to Lima in what the Peruvian press described as "a world air bridge." Tents and medicines arrived by air from Russia, powdered milk from France, more medicines from Spain. French President Pompidou announced a na tional campaign to aid the grief-stricken nation, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito asked his countrymen to send contributions. More than 200 Chilean families offered to adopt some of the estimated 5,000 orphaned children. Aid also came from Fidel Castro, who seeks to make common cause with the Peruvian army's radical reform policies. Along with...