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...bigger factor in Duarte's favor may be the state of the war. Bolstered by 40 UH-1H helicopters and two AC-47 aerial gunships provided by the U.S., the Salvadoran army is both better equipped and somewhat more aggressive than before. According to military spokesmen, 40 to 60 rebels surrender each month and even more guerrillas are simply laying down their arms and going home. Yet, other rebels are still joining up; estimates of the number of remaining insurgents vary from...
...being administered there. So when a delegation from the Senate Budget and Appropriations committees arrived in Honduras last Wednesday, the camp was naturally on their itinerary. Senators J. Bennett Johnston (D., La.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.), seven other passengers and six crew members boarded two unarmed UH-1H helicopters at a Honduran air force base; Johnston and Chiles rode in the same vehicle. But as they approached Colomoncagua, their carefully scripted tour rapidly went awry...
Sitting inches from the prop wash of his UH-1H ("Huey") helicopter, Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...
...Marxist-dominated Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week slipped under cover of darkness among the open hangars at El Salvador's heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
...Vietnamese air force. Two years ago, it mustered 6,000 men and 185 aircraft -many of them ancient T-28 trainers converted to fighter-bombers. Today the air force has 12,500 men and 350 planes. The T-28s have been phased out and replaced by the A-1H Skyraider attack bomber, a brute of a plane that pilots fondly call "a truck-but what a truck!" The air force's primary mission is to fly close support for the army, and, operating in close cooperation with U.S. pilots, it has developed into Asia's second best...