Word: treetops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belgium and The Netherlands, is a dry-land version of the U.S. Navy's Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missile. It is designed to be a subsonic weapon with a range of about 1,500 miles and a lot of maneuverability; it will be able to fly at treetop level and follow a serpentine course, and can be recalled at any time before it reaches its target...
...Dordogne Valley in southwest France is known for its richly forested hillsides, its spectacular rock formations, its prehistoric cave paintings and - perhaps most fondly - for its truffles and foie gras. It also happens to be the home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many...
...morning sun the helicopters come, flying at treetop level to avoid the treacherous downdrafts in Mexico's rugged, majestic Sierra Madre Occidental. A copter scarcely touches down before soldiers leap out, their Belgian FAL rifles at the ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
Sighting a kinkajou (tropical honey-bear) in a treetop rising above the water, Walsh gave the order to move in. The cayuco bumped gently against the treetop, and an ax-wielding Indian hoisted himself onto a branch to chop through the trunk. As the treetop toppled, he caught the kinkajou by the tail before it hit the water. Soon the little bear was safely ensconced in a cage in mid-canoe. A black-vested anteater was rescued next, followed by an opossum, two sloths and even a 6-ft.-long tree boa. Explains Walsh: "I don't apologize...
During the predawn hours of Feb. 18, 1970, on a jungle hilltop near the village of Chu Lai, South Viet Nam, an outgoing shell from a U.S. Army howitzer accidentally struck a treetop and exploded above the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Americal Division. Six were injured, two were killed. One of them was Michael Mullen, 25, the fifth generation of his family to farm the same fertile Iowa acreage. Michael was pierced by a small crescent of steel that tore a hole in his heart. He was sleeping and died instantly...