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KOREA SAYS ‘COPTER HIT
U.S.
Pilot Reports Craft Going; Down’
By PHILIP BROWN SEOUL, Korea (AP) — Communists North Korea claimed its forces shot down a U.S. helicopter Sunday about 15 miles north of the demilitarized zone. The United Nations Command said the last word from the pilot was that he was hit and was going down.
A spokesman for the Command said there was strong evidence that an unarmed U.S. Army helicopter with three men aboard was hit by ground fire and went down in North Korean territory near the Han River estuary along the western end of the truce border.
The spokesman said continuing investigations indicated the pilot became disoriented and accidently flew over North Korean territory.
LOCATION The Communist broadcast! monitored in Tokyo said the! plane went down at 11 a.m. over! Kumchon, 15 miles north of: Panmunjom, the city in the demilitarized zone where truce j talks have been held since the; end of the Korean war. Panmun-i jom is about 35 miles northwest! of Seoul.	j
Pyongyang radio called the ■ incident another “provocation by U.S. imperialists in violation of the Korean armistice agreement.” There was no mention of the fate of the crewmen.
The UNC spokesman withheld the names of the missing crewmen pending notification of relatives, but a Pentagon source said in Washington that no top-ranking officers were involved.
The spokesman said U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Arthur H. Ad-^senior United Nations dmmand member on the Ko-
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BLAIBERG DEAD AT GROTE SCHUUR
Was Longest Surviving Transplant Patient
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (AP) — Philip Blaiberg, the world’s longest surviving heart
COLLINS DROPS FLIGHT STATUS
Aldrin May Also Remain Earthbound
By PAUL RECER SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins said Sunday he; would never again fly into space i and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. indicat-[ ed he may not.	!
Collins said he made up his ! mind "before the moon flight j that if it was successful he i would not fly again but that ■ ‘•if we blew it” he would con-
fransplant patient, died Sunday! tinue as a space pilot.
-504 days after receiving t^ Aid™ cast doubt on just what
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heart of a mulatto. He was 60.	; “Whether I’ll remain on flight
Grote Schuur hospital, where status or not, I haven’t had the
Dr. Christiaan Barnard per-:opportunity to make that deci-
formed the world's third heart slon ye*->” sa^-
r>,	The	third	Apollo	11	spaceman,
graft on Blaiberg Jan. 2. 1963.^ A ArmPstrong; ^ {irst
said the end came “peacefully.”|man to walk the moon, left the Between spells of ill health Blai- door open to future flights, berg had lived almost a normal “I’m available in any ca- j life, and his wife once com- pacity in which I could serve . .	, ,	..	,	best.” said Armstrong,
plained he was running around, „Apollo u is my last {light,”
like a machine.”	iCollins, a 38-year-old air force!
She and his daughter Jill were colonel, said during the CBS1 with Blaiberg until the end at program “Face The Nation.”
7:40 p.m.
A relative said Blaiberg was at conscious up to the last few moments and suffered no pain.
“He was at peace with world,” the relative said.
He said it was difficult “to keep up year after year,” refer-1 ring to the long hours of train-; ing needed to stay tuned for future space flights.	i
Collins also said the hours of the training “encroached on my‘ family life.”
OTHER AREAS
An autopsy will be held, prob-! «In view of all those factors,”; ably Monday morning, doctors he said, “I intend to contribute!
j whatever I can to the space program in some other capacity.” .
Collins circled the moon in the ! command module while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and walked on the surface.	;
Collins had flown into space one time before Apollo 11. He was pilot on the three-day earth! orbit flight of Gemini 10 com-j manded by astronaut John! Young in 1966.	,	:
Armstrong denied reports j by a German magazine and
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