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...order to get their land. In Mato Grosso five years ago, a gift of sugar laced with arsenic wiped out the Tapaiuna Indians. Another Mato Grosso tribe was first shot up by a band of gunmen, then bombed from the air by dynamite sticks tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members to 300 in the past ten years. There, the government says, farmers and Indian Service workers often sold Indians as slaves and tortured them for the sheer pleasure of it. The harassment...
...through his own participation in at least one of each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance to rescue operations, that are flown over North Viet Nam. He has also made it a point to fly in every kind of U.S. aircraft in use in Asia, from little Cessna spotter planes to the fleet F-4 fighter-bomber. Only Momyer himself can call off a search-and-rescue effort for a downed U.S. pilot, and he refuses to leave his combat center until he has made that grim decision, even if it means pacing the floor through an entire...
...dividends, pockets no expense money. Instead, he plows every cent of profit, which he prefers to call "operating surplus," back into his business-aviation. In the space of 13 years, Rachal's little known Mooney Aircraft Inc. has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to become, after Cessna, Piper and Beech, the nation's fourth biggest private-aircraft maker...
Alvin F. Oien, 59, was hopping his single-engine Cessna from Portland, Ore., to San Francisco last March 11 when he crashed. Remarkably, no one was killed: Oien was cut up, an arm and some ribs broken; his wife, Phyllis, 44, had a broken arm and ankle, and his stepdaughter, Carla Corbus, 15, was badly bruised. They were stranded 4,500 feet up, in northern California's Trinity Mountains. Luckily, Phyllis, a Northwestern University graduate, was a trained nurse, and Oien, a rough, resourceful logger who had worked his way up to ownership of a Portland hotel...
Suit for Burial. The Falling Stars' safety director grounded Wasik temporarily after Rickie's death. But soon he was jumping again. Last week he boarded the club's Cessna 182, the same plane from which his wife had plummeted. At 3,200 ft., he hesitated, then stepped into space. He rolled on his back, then indolently onto his stomach. In seconds, the horrified jumpmaster realized that Wasik had no intention of opening his parachute...