Word: chinook
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...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...
...force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department and Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., supplied Iran with Chinook choppers in violation of U.S. licensing rules. Says a Pentagon official: "A lot of countries are buying far more supplies than their air forces could ever use. But we have no way of monitoring resales...
...Super Spa, a giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...
...from a distance of about 28 miles. One missed the Conveyor; the other struck home. Though the vessel stayed afloat, the crew abandoned ship. Loss of the Conveyor was particularly painful for the British: the ship was carrying a large load of invasion equipment, possibly including heavy troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and spare parts for the Harriers. What made the attack on the freighter especially disturbing for the British was that the Conveyor reportedly was within sight of the carrier Hermes when struck. Presumably, the Hermes was the real target; the Argentines had taken aim at the wrong blip...
...rain for the state's northern counties. The hillsides around San Francisco Bay are still waterlogged from weeks of downpours. Residents feared that devastating floods and mudflows, which killed 37 people just a week earlier, might strike again. In Idaho, there was concern about the prospect of warm chinook winds, which could thaw the state's flood-high but now frozen rivers. Boise, Idaho, wedged in a valley, had half a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, but the most worrisome weather anomaly was a fetid "inversion layer" of smog that blanketed the city. Low temperatures...