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...counter the effect of armed U.S. helicopters, the Communist Viet Cong have placed a price on the head of every chopper crew. Kill a helicopter and you win 35,000 piasters ($486). Last week the Viet Cong were doing well for themselves...
...pilot, as is an older brother. Even his twelve-year-old brother David can fly the family Aztecs, although the law insists a pilot be 16 before he can solo. Gregory's window overlooks the Potter family helipad, and he is now empowered to take out the family chopper any time. This puts him one up on his father, who has not got around to taking that test...
...helicopter to the spot indicated by the prisoner. Sure enough, there was a neat graveyard with a white gate. The helicopter sat down on a paddy near the graves. Suddenly shots rang out. Both pilots were slightly wounded, but Call and Chaplain Aubrey Smith made it back to the chopper, and the chaplain fired several shots at the enemy. "I was carried away," he explained...
...Klusmann, 30, of San Diego felt ground fire thumping through his craft, ejected himself seconds before the plane tumbled to earth. An American search helicopter out of Vientiane spotted the downed pilot at the edge of a clearing, but it was driven off by Communist fire that wounded the chopper's copilot. The Pathet Lao radio later announced that Klusmann had been taken prisoner...
...demonstrate Cambodian neutrality, 13 of the Viet Cong fighters who had taken refuge in Cambodia were sentenced to one year of "rest" in prison. Then Sihanouk took off in his French helicopter to go village-hopping, make speeches, and shower bolts of cloth and other gifts from his chopper upon the amazed peasants below. Sihanouk also continued a shrill diplomatic campaign that seems to assume that Cambodia, with its 5,500,000 people-a country known to many Westerners only vaguely as the locale of the magnificent, slumbering old temples of Angkor Wat-is somehow at the heart...