The U.S. airlift of war supplies to Israel begun during the Yom Kippur War, virtually ended today according to Pentagon spokesman Jerry Friedheim. He said the U.S. would make no resupply flights to Israel because “in our view the emergency that called for the airlift supplies is essentially over.” He noted, however, that war supplies were at present being delivered to Israel by ship. He said six flights were being made to Israel today and 10 were made yesterday, compared to the 16 or 17 a day flight average last week and more than 25 a day during the height of the war.
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