Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trible and Senator John Warner to Clintwood High, where an enthusiastic crowd was gathered. Only one problem: the two Republicans, who were supposed to be at Clintwood Elementary School, found themselves at a rally for Trible's Democratic foe, Richard Davis. A flustered Trible scrambled back into the chopper. Warner, a more seasoned pol, stayed the course, shaking hands all round before retreating...
Some 40 patrol boats, torpedo boats, minesweepers, surveying ships and buzzing police launches joined in the hunt. Many of the pursuers carried highly sensitive sonar equipment. Overhead clattered ten antisubmarine helicopters, which lowered hydrophones into the water like stethoscopes. When a telltale noise was heard, a chopper or a boat would drop depth charges in an attempt to force the sub to the surface. The waters of the bay rose in explosive plumes, and the air was filled with the smell of dead fish...
...tightly scheduled visit to Europe, they got into explosive quarrels over the pettiest matters. For example, Haig is said to have regarded it as an affront that the helicopter carrying him and his wife Patricia from Heathrow Airport outside London to Windsor Castle was far behind the Reagans' chopper. According to White House aides, he upbraided Clark and Baker on the lawn at Windsor Castle, while Queen Elizabeth II was welcoming Reagan. "He went crazy," recalls one presidential assistant. Haig further annoyed Clark and Baker by theatening to abandon the trip and return to Washington...
...Sunday, as two helicopters ferried reconnaissance units to the 100-mile-long island, the British had a stroke of luck. Some five miles from South Georgia, the chopper pilots spotted the Argentine submarine Santa Fe moving toward Grytviken. The British fired at the sub, a diesel-powered craft built in 1944 by the U.S., with machine guns and rockets. They scored at least three hits on the vessel, which began leaking oil and giving off smoke. The stricken Santa Fe limped into Grytviken harbor to beach itself. As about 50 Argentine troops poured off the vessel...
...call comes in on the radio of a command post on Guazapa. A wounded officer is at the village of Palo Grande. The chopper pilots discuss strategy with the commanding colonel over the luncheon table. Can they get a small chopper in to pick him up? No way, say the pilots, the area is too hot. One pilot took eleven holes through the floor on the last pass. They decide to send in two gunships...