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He reiterated what Reyes had said, then turned “Which helicopter?”

“This way,” Reyes said, leading the followed the four Tibetans, and once they were seated inside, the helicopter lifted off and headed into the center of town

“Who are they after?” Rimpoche asked

“The chair Zhuren”

The last helicopter was on the ground, and Huxley walked over

“This is oursaid to Rimpoche “Poll your troops and see if any of your men have any experience as doctors or nurses—if so, we need theht noever, we need that helicopter unloaded and the contents carried inside the ter up a field hospital immediately If any of your men were injured or wounded, she’ll treat them shortly”

Rimpoche shouted orders and men raced to the helicopter to unload Ada to finish He turned and smiled

“You two go see what the Chinese have that we can use,” Seng said “I need to interrogate a prisoner”

The two pilots a walked inside to where a Chinese air force lieutenant was sitting in a chair in theTibetan soldiers surrounding him

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“DAMN nice scenery,” Murphy noted, glancing out the“Like Alaska on steroids”

Gurt atching the altitude gauge as they clie of mountains just ahead The sun had yet to peek over the horizon, but her coed terrain

“We could probably claim the helicopter altitude record,” Gurt said

“I don’t think so,” Murphy said “Soo to perform a Himalayan rescue”

“I read about that,” Gurt said, “but that was in a Bell 206 And it had special rotor blades”