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Colombian pilots will travel to Florida to learn to fly the jet-powered, twin-engine Blackhawks, which cost about $1,500 an hour to fly. Crews for the Hueys, which cost only $500 an hour, will be trained in Colombia, whose military has flown Bell birds for years. There is concern in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the U.S. government that sending the more costly and complicated Blackhawks will require Colombia to divert drug-fighting dollars to their maintenance or--more likely--force the U.S. to pick up the tab. "These are the best helicopters in our Army...
...about his father, he may have chosen to write about the less interesting parent. While the man she still calls Johnny was taking his campaign bus through South Carolina, his mother was on another one of her three-month jaunts around the world, which she often takes with her twin sister Rowena. Her latest trip took her to India, the Netherlands, Singapore, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, among other places. And she doesn't take the touring coach. As might be expected of the mother of a fighter pilot, she straps herself into a fire-engine-red BMW. She logged...
Flight 261 never made it to the ground. After a long, agonizing struggle with the lurching aircraft, punctuated by two loud noises, the twin-engine MD-83 hurtled toward the Pacific in a grim death spiral--"spinning," "corkscrewing" and "nose down," in the words of eyewitnesses. When the plane made its high-speed crash into the water 40 miles from Los Angeles, all 83 passengers and five crew members were apparently killed instantly...
Twelve-year-old twin terrorists toking on stogies as they order up a hospital siege? That may sound a little far-fetched even in the fevered imagination of the action-movie genre, but it was probably the most compelling detail of the hostage drama that ended in a bloodbath in Thailand Monday. In a surprise attack the Thai army freed 500 hostages and killed 10 members of the self-styled "God's Army," but the more shocking image for Western audiences may have been the photographs of the organization's leaders, Luther and Johnny Htoo. The boys are fundamentalist Christians...
Beverly's twin sister, Betty C. Luther '03, is a first-year at Harvard, but is not as confident as her sister about the resources available to her. While she thinks that professors certainly make themselves available to students, it might require extra effort to talk to them. At Harvard, she says, students need to take the initiative...