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...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...
...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...
Dobson, 1-2, had a one-hitter through the first seven innings, allowing only Dwight Evans's infield chopper in the third, before yielding two hits in the eighth and three more in the ninth, including Bob Heise's run-scoring double...
...storage place for battle-worn Air Force squadrons; since 1965 it has accommodated surplus Army and Navy aircraft as well. By now the inventory ranges from workhorse World War II C-47s to sleek F-111 fighters, from two-seater orange "bug smashers" on which the Army trained its chopper pilots for Viet Nam to dozens of "Super Jolly Green Giant" helicopters that flew Viet Nam troop-carrying and rescue missions. Some are there because they are not needed now, and others because they will never be needed again...
Iran's army boasts about 3,000 armored vehicles and has more than 1,000 helicopters, including the American-made SeaCobra attack chopper, which even the U.S. Army does not have. What is probably the world's biggest helicopter-training facility has been constructed at Isfahan in central Iran. It is staffed by U.S. experts who, with their families, form a colony of 5,000. The Shah's navy includes nearly 40 destroyers, frigates and Hovercraft?some armed with missiles. Iran is now so important a customer for American arms that the head of the U.S. military mission in Tehran...