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U.S. Airlift Delivers Food to Drought Stricken Mali
Howie and the desert rats of Pope Air Force Base fly 15 tons of emergency grain to Timbuktu as part of a larger U.S. airlift aiding near starving Malians. The operation, begun mid April, aims to disperse about 1000 tons to key towns including Timbuktu Goundam Gao Nioro and Nara.
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Timbuktu, Mali
Howie
Desert Rats
Timbuktu
Pope Air Force Base
North Carolina
Vietnam
Maj
Howard Seaboldt
West Africa
Mauritania
Senegal
Atlantic
Mali
Upper Volta
Niger
Chad
United Nations
U.S
Robert O. Blake
Bamako
U.S. Air Force
317Th Tactical Airlift Wing
Pope
Goundam
Gao
Nioro
Nara
Sahel
United States
France
West Germany
China
Canada
European Economic Community
David C. Morris
Readiness Command
MacDill Air Force Base
Tampa
Fla
Soviet Union