Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of a Gateway National Recreation Area in the vicinity of the harbor. It was a curious meeting of three Republicans who rarely agree with one another on much of anything. But Nixon's political purpose was not to mollify his fellow Republicans. Rather, by making the chopper tour, he deftly took the headlines away from a possible presidential rival, Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had scheduled a congressional hearing on the project for later in the week...
...area in his Huey command helicopter when he did the shooting, taking potshots at Vietnamese peasants on the ground below. He has admitted the killings in private, making a fine distinction between innocent civilians and possible Communists by saying he shot those who "took evasive action" as his chopper whirred overhead...
...South Vietnam, U.S. helicopters broke a ring of Vietcong fire Sunday to resupply a South Vietnamese artillery outpost under siege for 12 days. Most of the helicopters were called back before reaching the base after the North Vietnamese downed one chopper...
Crowded Helicopters. One of the 1st Division's three regiments-the 3rd-returned with only 450 of its original 2,000 men still in fighting condition. For those troops at least, the orderly retreat had become a rout. Choppers that ordinarily accommodate eight men carried 14, some clinging precariously to the helicopter skids. Several lost their holds in mid-air and fell to death; others seemed barely able to hobble, apparently suffering from their days of marching through Laos' jungled mountains. One unconscious soldier had one arm wrapped around a machine-gun mount, while his comrades held...
Mission Accomplished. In mid-afternoon the first chopper, a Cobra gunship, swinging low to check the landing zone, came under heavy fire from the ground. It tried to roll out, but nosed into the jungle and exploded. The second, a Huey troop carrier, managed to land and evacuate 17 men. The third was hit by machine-gun fire and crashed. Two hours later, two more helicopters landed and rescued the downed chopper's crew and the last ARVN troops...