Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precautions can control another specter that hangs over the city. It is the arch of clouds created by the dread Chinook wind that sweeps out of the west each winter at speeds up to 72 m.p.h. The winds can raise the temperature by 18 degrees in the time it takes to grill an Alberta-bred New York strip steak. The Chinook could turn venues in the mountains into piles of slush. Snowmaking machines are already churning away, building stockpiles in case...
...photos in the travel brochure promise exotic scenes of rare beauty: coarse sand beaches curve seamlessly toward the horizon; delicate, silk-draped women smile alluringly. But upon landing at an eerily empty Tan Son Nhut airport, there is no escaping the stark reminders of conflicts past: the olive-drab Chinook helicopters, C-130s and C-47s lie cheek by cowl off the tarmac. This is no Club Med. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, a recent and tentative entrant in the lucrative global sweepstakes known as the tourist industry...
...Honduras, Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly took the final leg of his journey to the Nicaraguan border aboard a U.S. Chinook helicopter. Like Allis, he found himself flying on the lining of his stomach. "Chinooks ride like New York subway trains going flat out," says Kelly. By week's end, however, all the careering about had got the correspondents safely to their destinations -- and got the story...
President Reagan immediately granted Honduras $20 million in military assistance and ordered U.S. troops stationed near Tegucigalpa to start airlifting Honduran troops to the border. Fifty U.S. pilots and crew members, manning ten Hueys and four Chinook helicopters, began ferrying 600 Honduran soldiers to some ten miles from the embattled zone. Since the U.S. military presence in Honduras began building in 1980, it was the first direct involvement of U.S. troops in a Honduran military operation...
...door leading to the rooftop helipad. A Marine jerked the arm down smartly onto the broken glass, and as the Marines waited for their deliverance, they alternated between studying the sky to the southeast and raking arms across the glass to keep the Vietnamese at bay. A Chinook-46 escorted by six Cobra gunships came fluttering in from the sea. The Marines dropped canisters of tear gas onto the crowd below, and then they boarded their Chinook. But they had also gassed themselves. As Journalist David Butler writes in his new book The Fall of Saigon, "They forgot that...