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NATION, Page 27American NotesLOS ANGELESA Holy Helicopter
The Flying Nun was fantasy, but in Los Angeles the airborne
Archbishop is for real. To enable Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger
Mahony to get around his three-county, 8,700-sq.-mi. archdiocese,
anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered
helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly
it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time
to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to
2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been
diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating more
than $1 million a year each to programs for the poor.