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Thai forces reacted swiftly to the Vietnamese assault. Ground units swept the invaded area with automatic weapons fire, while helicopter gunships strafed Vietnamese sighted in scrub land outside the camps. After the Vietnamese shot down a Thai chopper and observation plane, the Thais moved in heavy reinforcements of tanks and armored cars to the front. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark visited the scene while the fighting was still going on. "Thousands of refugees were fleeing down the road," he reported, "and many others squatted in the water of the overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery...
...Huey chopper, piloted by National Guard Captain Harold Ward, went up the south fork of the Toutle, which had turned into a caramel ribbon, toward the peak, still shrouded in clouds of steam and ash. The mocha-colored terrain appeared otherworldly, a madly undulating landscape. The trees looked as if they had been strewn across the foothills by a careless child. As we passed over Baker Camp, a logging base, we spotted a pickup truck, a dead child lying face upward in the back. Ward swung the Huey over a huge mudhole that had once been Spirit Lake, a body...
...eight helicopters, packed with Cabinet officers, Senators, Congressmen and local government officials, including Governors Dixy Lee Ray of Washington and John Evans of Idaho. From the air Carter could not see the still-smoking peak of Mount St. Helens. It was hidden by rain clouds. But as his chopper flew at treetop level, he was astonished by the colorless landscape...
...helicopter and made three dangerously close passes. The first two came within 100 yds. of the U.S. craft. On the third pass a MiG zoomed a mere 50 ft. under the helicopter, which was only 300 ft. above the water. The MiG pilot then fired his afterburner, causing the chopper to shake and its crew to tremble. From Key West Naval Air Station, two Marine F-4 fighter planes scrambled to come to the chopper's rescue, but by the time they arrived the Cuban MiGs were gone. The action by the Cuban pilots was denounced by the Pentagon...
...daybreak on May 12, as the Andersons tried to land near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Kitty Hawk was pushed by strong gusts toward high-power lines. The Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might...