Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aim its mirror earthward, Discovery had to fly with its nose forward and pitched downward. When it passed over the Maui facility on its 37th orbit Wednesday, the shuttle was instead flying backward with its nose pitched slightly upward. A NASA spokesman sheepishly called the mistake a "ground- based accounting error...
...walls myself, when I'm alone, about this." A rescue operation looks impossible. Retaliation? If he were to order it, said Reagan, "I would probably be sentencing a number of Americans to death," presumably from terrorists' revenge. Besides, he said, terrorists are difficult to isolate, and if "you just aim in the general direction and kill some people, well, then you're a terrorist too." It was a candid statement of a fearful dilemma: placing an overriding value on human life is the hallmark of a moral nation, yet it puts that nation at a disadvantage in confronting zealots...
This week, however, the series will come under attack on the very network that gave it life. PBS, in an unusual move, will run an hour-long rebuttal produced by Accuracy in Media, the conservative group dedicated to exposing "liberal bias" in print and on television. The AIM film is the centerpiece of a two-hour Inside Story special that includes a brief history of the PBS series, an examination of AIM's major charges and a 22-minute panel discussion of the issue. The segment is moderated by Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller and involves historians, journalists and representatives...
...AIM's rebuttal is less polished and sophisticated than most network documentaries. Except for an ultrasmooth on-camera host, Charlton Heston, the program is rather dry and technically clumsy. Many of its charges seem directed less at the Viet Nam series than at general policies and attitudes that, in AIM's view, contributed to the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. The program exhumes, for example, the old conservative charge that the media misled the nation about the 1968 Tet offensive and resurrects news footage of a smiling Jane Fonda visiting North Viet Nam, accompanied by mocking music...
...AIM program cannot be completely dismissed. It has marshaled its own cadre of authorities to help make a case that the Viet Nam series, among other things, inaccurately portrayed North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points...