| The U.N. announces food airlifts into the west African nation, where more than a million people are at risk now of starvation. |
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| They are huddled in the remaining buildings and relying on airlifts for supplies, since the base's runway was also lost to the deep. |
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| Remember all the massive airlifts out of various hospitals and also the New Orleans Airport? |
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| Well, this is the first time in the emergency that the World Food Programme has done airlifts of food into some of the worst affected areas. |
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| An important mission tackled by engineer units is preparing touchdown pads for helicopters so as to assure timely airlifts to a conflict escalation area. |
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| The military took over the shattered New Orleans airport for emergency airlifts, but special teams of Air Force operators had to be sent in to make it ready. |
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| Slayton observes that of the four great military airlifts of the twentieth century, Tunner was in charge of the three that succeeded. |
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| There is no doubting that Tom Mboya's airlifts were an important initiative, both for the future of the USA and the future of Africa. |
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| Additional airlifts into Iraq are scheduled for the coming weeks. |
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