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From: stan@hou2f.UUCP (S.GLAZER)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Ethopian Jews
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 17:40:51 EST
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	Something happened to my second paragraph.  Let me try it again.

	The airlift, which began about Thanksgiving time, started with
one flight per week (plane size unknown) and was to be completed sometime
in March.  The air carrier was a Belgium charter who was working under a
contract from the Jewish Agency.  The plan was to rescue the approx.
12,000 jews who were already in the Sudanese refugee camps or on the way
to the camps.  As news of the rescue leaked to the press, the flights
were increased to twice weekly, then to four times per week.  They
were being increased to eight times weekly when the carrier resigned
due to political pressure from the Sudan.  (I do not know how the
pressure was applied.)  When stopped, approx. 7,000-9,000 were
already rescued.  The flights were not direct between the Sudan
and Israel, but via other unspecified points.  (We were told,
quite dramatically, that the refugees came through 10 centuries
in 10 hours.)

	Hope the above adds more continuity to my previous posting.

					Stan Glazer
					AT&T-Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
					hou2f!stan