Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helicopter buzzed over the DMZ, a unit of South Koreans, realizing it was off course, fired their rifles into the air to warn it. The shots may have confused or frightened the Chinook's pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Miles, 26, who continued to proceed across the well-marked 2.5-mile-wide DMZ into North Korea. There he landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald...
Says Menzel's Mueller: "You can get everything from building permits to bank credit lines in five days. You can be in business six months earlier here than in Germany." Unit production costs, according to Mueller, are 5% to 7% lower in Spartanburg than in West Germany, while fringe benefits for the young, unskilled, nonunionized workers are not at all comparable to the cradle-to-grave cosseting of the European worker. Mueller, who raises a few cattle on the side, has found the economics of building textile machinery in the Bible Belt so favorable that he has been able...
...strange events sent a chill through the sprawling Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. Within a six-week period in the summer of 1975, 27 patients, many of them in the intensive-care unit, suffered mysterious breathing failures. Several were stricken more than once, and eleven of the patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant...
...Tainan airbase in southern Taiwan. "There is simply no freedom on the mainland." Fan, who had been thinking of defecting for many years, prepared for his escape by listening to broadcasts from Taiwan giving directions on routes and proper signals for defectors to use. His opportunity came when his unit was transferred last month to a base in Fukien province, just across the Taiwan Strait...
Lieutenant Lawrence Murphy, head of the Cambridge Police Investigation Unit, said yesterday although the police have no "hot" leads at the moment, they "have not given up hope" of recovering the paintings...