Word: choppers
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...doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply from ear to ear-and the killer had always struck on Wednesdays or weekends. Los Angeles police call him the Slasher; some vagrants of the neighborhood have dubbed him the Head Chopper...
Yankee designated hitter Roy White then hit a high chopper between third base and the pitcher's mound. By the time the ball came down, however, White was safe at first and Alomar was standing on third. Centerfielder Maddox followed and hit the very first pitch on the ground through the right side for a base...
Prince Charles has a new bird. At the Yeovilton Naval Base last week, he boarded a Royal Navy helicopter and began what is to be a 3½-month course in the fine points of chopper flying. Charles has already mastered jet fighters, and officers at Yeovilton say that he is a "natural pilot." But the navy is taking no chances: other pilots have been ordered to stay clear of the area whenever the prince is airborne...
...Charging fees to evacuate wounded soldiers by helicopter. Chopper pilots frequently ask for-and get-$8 for an enlisted man, $16 for an NCO and $25 and up for an officer...
...duel over the Chinese capture of a Soviet helicopter that strayed across the border into Sinkiang last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been paraded through border towns as centerpieces of anti-Soviet rallies. Now Moscow is worried about reports that China will give them a public show trial and sentence them to long...