TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

Guerrillas hit a U.S. helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade Tuesday near Fallujah west of Baghdad, and the American military said the aircraft made a "controlled landing."

"The helicopter was forced to make a hard landing a controlled landing," said Maj. Peter J. Mitchell of the U.S. Central Command in Florida. "There have been no casualties, injuries or fatalites reported. The military personnel who were aboard it have walked away from it."

A military spokesman in Baghdad, who would not be named, said said the OH-58 Kiowa observation helicopter was hit at 2:30 p.m.