Word: ata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ATA, as representative of the nation's airlines, would like to install the system (estimated cost: $24,000 to $50,000 per unit) aboard all commercial aircraft by 1974. But there is one serious drawback. Unless CAS is also carried by private planes, it will not prevent such collisions as the one between a big passenger jet and a small private plane near Indianapolis last month that killed 83 people. Many aviation men feel that the only long-range protection against more aerial tragedies lies in an all-encompassing, new air-traffic control system that would keep tabs...
...course, were carried out a la mexicana-with the in evitable, exuberant last-minute scramble to get a job done on time. The citizens proudly feel that it was their test, and they made it. Mexico City, scrubbed, brash, vital, is as bright and gay as a piñata party...
...Noble Savage." Nyerere has turned over the job of Westernizing the Masai to Aaron Weston Mkwang'ata, the commissioner of the territory in which most of them live. Mkwang'ata has instructed tribesmen to throw away their animal skins and skimpy loincloths and "dress in something better than a dirty sheet or a meager yard of cloth that exhibits your buttocks," has also warned them against allowing tourists to "take your naked pictures." He has backed up his crusade with penalties. In the past few weeks, about 250 Masai caught disobeying the new regulations have been locked...
...menacing pose for 2 shillings. Nyerere, who himself usually wears a Chinese-style boiler suit, does not seem to care about the tourist revenues that he may lose. His policy reflects not only the prudish nationalism of his socialist state but a black backlash against foreigners who, Mkwang'ata claims, romanticize the Masai as "walking, talking specimens of the noble savage." However, as an English-language newspaper, the Tanzania Standard, points out, Nyerere's policy ignores one fact: "To dress lightly makes sense in the heat of the tropics...
...roughly $40,000 per plane, the new CAS will be relatively inexpensive, and the ATA hopes to put it in operation by 1971. Budget planning for testing and refining a prototype has already begun. Says ATA president Stuart Tipton: "We believe this can be the starting point for a common national system for airborn collision avoidance -a goal we are determined to reach...