Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only by frequent replanting. Says K.H. Loftus, of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources: "The real...
...film the exploding helicopter, the hardest shot of all, the shell of a Viet Nam-vintage Huey chopper was filled with explosives and hoisted aloft on a 220-ft. cable by a larger Chinook. Then it was hung by cables attached to the rock itself. Either the cables were not fastened tightly enough, however, or a rock sliced them apart, because the Huey fell to the ground and exploded before cameras could...
...Shah airmen at the base were no match for this force. The crowds quickly set up guard posts at the base gates and prepared for a counterattack. While men filled sandbags and gathered material for barricades, women wrapped in black chadors set about making Molotov cocktails. Although heavily armed Chinook helicopters cruised overhead all day long, no soldiers appeared through the haze from burning tires and garbage that covered the area...
...Chinook was the sixth U.S. airship downed by the North since the Korean War's uneasy truce was signed 24 years ago. In that time, 54 Americans have been killed in a variety of clashes with the North Koreans; last year, Captain Arthur G. Bonifas and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett were bludgeoned to death with pikes and axes when they began pruning a tree in the DMZ. North and South Koreans killed in similar incidents number more than...
Troop Withdrawal. The North Korean reaction was also unexpectedly restrained. Pyongyang's official Central News Agency acknowledged that the Chinook's violation of North Korea's airspace might have been "unintentional." The key factor that helped to keep the situation cool was that Washington and Pyongyang both want to avoid an increase in tensions that might delay the departure of U.S. troops from South Korea. At week's end, Carter welcomed Schwanke's release and the return of the bodies. But Press Secretary Jody Powell said the President "deplored the loss of life...