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...outraged Bundestag investigating committee revealed last week, the suspects had been virtually handed over to the federal crime police antiterrorist squad by an observant helicopter pilot in Michelstadt, Karin Rieger. She reported that the three fugitives, equipped with a camera and video-tape equipment, had chartered her chopper for several flights over the Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles. Rieger became suspicious when she noticed that the supposed "film crew" not only handled their equipment awkwardly but repeatedly insisted on flying over the Frankenthal prison, where three other notorious terrorists have been locked up. They also made extensive photographs...
Outside again, the Prince ducked into the pilot's seat of his chopper, hovered long enough for an expansive wave to the crowds below and then aimed for Cardiff Castle, where the Royal Regiment of Wales waited for him to open a museum...
...replaced by pinch runner Danny Bowles. Bowles went to third on Halas's single up the middle, and came sliding home under a high throw when MIT second baseman Jeff Felton tried to make a play on him at the plate on Bobby Jenkins's chopper...
...L.B.J. Ranch was a little too far away for regular visits, so Lyndon Johnson used to chopper off to the camp with three or four friends in tow. He also found the retreat an ideal locale for some Viet Nam War jawboning with skeptics like Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Recalls L.B.J. Aide Jack Valenti: "It was a frosty meeting, but they parted friends. There's something about Camp David that makes you feel softer...
...President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald Wells, 22, were killed either in the crash or by North Korean gunfire after the chopper hit the ground. Schwanke survived and was taken into custody...