Staff Writer The same locally owned two-seater plane that caused the evacuation of the White House in 2005 by flying into restricted air space was involved in another incident in the no-fly zone Tuesday afternoon and had to be escorted down by two military helicopters.
A Pentagon program to rush 21 helicopters to Afghan military forces in time for this summer's fighting season was derailed by the Obama administration's conciliatory policy toward Russia and by Army procurement missteps amid allegations of corruption, according to current and former defense officials and military contractors. Four Russian-made Mi-17 dual-use civilian-military helicopters were sent to Afghanistan in September 2009 under a competitively bid Navy contract that delivered the aircraft in a record 45 days.
YAMAGATA, Japan - Emergency workers frantic to regain control of Japan's dangerously overheated nuclear complex turned to increasingly elaborate methods Thursday to cool nuclear fuel rods at risk of spraying out more radiation. They tried with water cannons, heavy-duty firetrucks and military helicopters dropping bucket after enormous bucket of water onto the stricken system.
ZAO, Japan - Japanese military helicopters dumped loads of seawater onto a stricken nuclear reactor today, trying to avoid full meltdowns as plant operators said they were close to finishing a new power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the crisis. S. officials in Washington, meanwhile, warned that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in northeastern Japan may be on the verge of spewing more radioactive material because water was gone from a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel rods.
ZAO, Japan -- Japanese military helicopters dumped loads of seawater onto a stricken nuclear reactor today, trying to avoid full meltdowns as plant operators said they were close to finishing a new power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the crisis. S. officials in Washington, meanwhile, warned that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in northeastern Japan might be on the verge of spewing more radioactive material because water was gone from a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel rods.
RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Within minutes after the Boeing 737-200 passenger jet slammed into a hill in Canada's remote Arctic region, military helicopters were landing at the crash site to evacuate the three survivors of the crash that killed 12 people. In an unlikely coincidence, several hundred military personnel in the region preparing for a mock airliner crash training exercise suddenly found themselves plunged into a real rescue mission. First Air charter flight 6560 crashed Saturday afternoon in foggy weather as it was approaching the airport near the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut. Local residents rushed to the scene in their all-terrain vehicles only to find a massive military rescue operation under way.
Tear gas is an occasional nuisance to Sheri Clark and her neighbors. Military helicopters fly by constantly, disrupting sleep. The automatic weapons fire sounds a lot closer than it is, though once Clark accidentally drove into a protest march, she said. A Lincoln native and the wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer, Clark lives in Manama, the capital city of Bahrain, in a housing compound a half-mile from Pearl Square, a prime site for Shiite protests of economic and political discrimination at the hands of the ruling Sunni minority since the demonstrations began about two weeks ago in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
By MARK MOREY YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
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