Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apocryphal story, like most good stories, but how well it fits the discoverer of America, for Americans have always liked to imagine in themselves a special gift for confronting any challenge, rejecting any doubts, refusing to admit failure. "The difficult we do immediately," said a memorable World War II Army slogan. "The impossible takes a little longer...
...contrast to the hoopla over NASA's manned missions, the Pentagon has al ways tried to keep secret the launching of its unmanned rockets carrying military satellites. In fact, not until 1978 did the U.S. admit that it flew any spy satellites over the U.S.S.R., even though their existence had been widely known for well over a decade. The Soviet news agency TASS usually announces missions just after they have been completed - successfully. Last week, the Soviets launched an unmanned model of their own space shuttle, a small, reusable winged space plane that orbited the earth once and splashed...
...strikes. The overall reality, however, has not changed: the contras right now are too small in number and too ill equipped to threaten the Sandinistas seriously, but they are also too stubborn to give up. "The contras know they can't win, but they won't admit it," says a prominent Honduran businessman. "At first they thought they would sweep into Managua. Now they know they are in a quagmire...
...months after a series of blunders by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, rumors of his departure had been gaining momentum. He committed his most serious faux pas last month when he stated flatly that Libyan forces had withdrawn from northern Chad, only to have an embarrassed President Francois Mitterrand admit several days later that the troops were still there. The rumors were finally borne out last week when Mitterrand tersely announced Cheysson's appointment to the European Commission, the executive body of the European Community...
Nesson: And when somebody sues your newspaper and says you got it wrong (laughter), let's have your source. You'd be happy to admit the libel judgement and pay a huge amount of money...