Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barrientos, Bolivia's President from 1964 to 1969, who received a $ 110,000 helicopter from Gulf in exchange for doing what he could to forestall nationalization and assure the company of lucrative drilling rights in Bolivia. (Barrientos died in a helicopter crash six years ago; officials assert the chopper was not the craft purchased by Gulf.) Still to be accounted for are two additional payments of $240,000 and $110,000 to Barrientos supporters...
...Nhut began, twelve hours behind Saigon time. Within hours, a series of meetings between President Ford and his top advisers led td the decision to evacuate all remaining Americans. By midafternoon in Saigon, dozens of American helicopters had begun arriving. By 7:52 the following morning, the last chopper had lifted off the roof of the American embassy (see following story). Except for a handful of newsmen and missionaries, the American presence in Viet Nam had come...
...Finally, at 5 p.m. Washington tune-it was then 5 a.m. in Saigon-Kissinger told the President that Martin was closing down the embassy and destroying its communications equipment. Minutes later, a helicopter broadcast the message: "Lady Ace Zero Nine, Code Two is aboard." Lady Ace 09 was the chopper's own call signal; Code Two designates an ambassador...
...week, another seven or so South Vietnamese helicopters had landed or tried to land on the U.S. naval vessels. One South Vietnamese pilot set his chopper down on top of another whose blades were still whirring. Others ditched their craft and had to be fished out of the water. An American search-and-rescue helicopter from the U.S.S. Hancock crashed at sea, and two of its four crew members were listed as missing, possibly the last American fatalities...
...only the fourth off Crimson bats on the afternoon, and only one of six hits that Walker allowed. The Northeastern starter would have earned a complete-game loss, but was lifted in the eighth after Leon Goetz doubled with two out and Cronin hit a hard chopper that alluded shortstop Joe Marani and went for an RBI single...