Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2f.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!hou2f!stan From: stan@hou2f.UUCP (S.GLAZER) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Ethopian Jews Message-ID: <439@hou2f.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 17:40:51 EST Article-I.D.: hou2f.439 Posted: Thu Jan 17 17:40:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:32:38 EST References: <214@ihu1m.UUCP>, <1187@akgua.UUCP>, <438@hou2f.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 24 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