Word: accidentally
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Immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear accident last April, the Soviets spurned U.S. offers of aid. But they did allow Millionaire Industrialist Armand Hammer to dispatch his friend Bone Marrow Specialist Dr. Robert Gale to help. Two weeks ago Hammer became the first known nonmedical Westerner to meet with those hospitalized...
He has emerged at the age of 77 in a reflective mood prompted by a nearfatal automobile accident in Switzerland, where he now lives. "Only an idiot believes that he can write the truth about himself," he begins, and then demonstrates that idiocy becomes him. Unlike Greene's God-haunted...
NASA said yesterday, however, that furtheranalysis showed that Smith's final comment offeredthe first potential indication of crew awarenessof the accident.
Investigators say the accident occurred when ajoint in a solid rocket booster failed and causedsuperheated gases to burn through the externalfuel tank containing liquid hydrogen and liquidoxygen, triggering the explosion.
Accusing NASA of negligence, the suit charges that its officials "knew or should have known that the segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur." It also claims that in the seconds before flames from the leaking booster...