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Clipping on back reads, "Volunteer feeds a soybean extract to orphan, Vietnamese infant suffered from malnutrition and dehydration." Photo shows a young African American woman sitting on the arm of chair on an airplane holding a baby in her arms and feeding him a bottle. According to the Oakland Tribune, April 18, 1995: the occasion was an airlift of orphaned Vietnamese children organized and flown by World Airways. The week before this article appeared, a World Airways 747 brought 329 Vietnamese and Cambodian orphans to the United States, landing at Clark Air Base. The last people airlifted out of Vietnam occurred on April 29, 1975. Excerpt from Oakland Tribune, April 18, 1995, article titled "Daly's challenge to U.S.: Vast Private Relief Effort": "Hundreds of America's largest business firms and 100 of its wealthiest individuals have been asked by Ed Daly, president of World Airways, to donate $1 million each for the aid of refugees in Indochina. 'This contribution,' Daly told a press conference in San Francisco yesterday, 'can save hundreds of thousands of lives in Indochina.' Daly, who spoke by telephone from Saigon, said immediately needed are 'food, milk, mattresses, blankets, medicine and other life-saving requirements.' Although he has already spent $1 million of his own money flying orphans out of Cambodia and Vietnam, Daly said 'I have committed another million dollars personally to this effort.' He expressed confidence that 'American businessmen can and will show the people of the world that a free enterprise system can respond to basic human needs in an unselfish way with the only motivation-to save lives.' David M. Mendelsohn, a World Airways vice president at the press conference, said, 'The conditions are deplorable. Daly is distraught. Hundreds of thousands could die for lack of food...if immediate aid is not forthcoming.' He explained the aid would be distributed through agencies such as the International Red Cross, the United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) and Vatican relief organizations free to work in both government and communist held territories." This photo appeared in the Oakland Tribune on April 18, 1975 on page 3.